The law of increasing entropy is an impenetrable barrier which no evolutionary mechanism yet suggested has ever been able to overcome. Evolution and entropy are opposing and mutually exclusive concepts. If the entropy principle is really a universal law, then evolution must be impossible. The very terms themselves express contradictory concepts. The picture is of an outward-progressing spiral, an unrolling from an infinitesimal beginning through ever broadening circles, until finally all reality is embraced within.
Evolution is change outward and upward, entropy is change inward and downward.
It seems obvious that either evolution or entropy has been vastly over-rated or else that something is wrong with the English language. The entropy principle, however, is nothing less than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which is as universal and certain a law as exists in science. First, however, before discussing the Second, Law, we should define the First Law and, for that matter, thermodynamics itself. It is the science that speaks of the power or energy contained in heat, and its conversion to other forms of energy. Power is the work done, or the energy expended to do the work, per unit of time measured in foot-pounds per second.