Rather than go into that here, I'll point you to a Web essay I wrote a
couple of years ago:
http://home.earthlink.net/~schimmrich/scichr/essays/thermo.html
If I were writing it today, I'd probably say a few things differently
(and I might talk a little about Prigogine's nonequilibrium work, which I
was pretty unfamiliar with at that time), but it should still be enough
to dispel the simplistic 2nd law anti-evolution argument one usually hears.
Some of these matters are also addressed in a Web essay written by Doug
Craigen, a physicist in Canada:
http://www.winnipeg.freenet.mb.ca/iphome/a/accc/evol.html
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