The Imperial Curmudgeon undertook an analysis (dated 12/30/03) of my post on The Imperial Firearms Advisor's post. I'm not that great at expediting links so if I made a mistake on this issue, pardon me.
I take issue with this part of Professor Poretto's post:
Unfortunately, the foundation of Will's argument, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, doesn't say what he thinks it does. (Trust a former astrophysicist to be picky about such things.) It applies solely to the aggregate entropy of a closed system. [UPDATE: I believe that is a bullshit argument because it is an attempt to get around the problem of increasing order. I discuss it in the comment section below. - Will] It dictates nothing for an open system -- a system capable of importing net non-heat energy from "outside" and expelling heat and wastes to "outside." Zones within a closed system may exhibit decreasing entropy for indefinitely long periods of time; else, life could not maintain itself at all. Moving from theory to practice, laboratory researchers have demonstrated the spontaneous formation of amino acids in primordial-Earth conditions, so there's no real objection to the evolutionary thesis on the basis of practical implausibility.