[Right Wing Professor]

Physics proposes a picture of the cosmos "running down" toward an eventual state of entropy, whereas evolution as looked at "globally," represents a "current moving in the opposite direction from entropy.

Nonsense. Evolution, looked at globally, is driven by the flow of energy from the sun, a heat source at 10000 K (on the surface), into the ambient universe at 2 K. The rate of entropy increase in that process is at least 20 orders of magnitude greater than the rate of entropy decrease due to evolution, which is probably unmeasurably small.

[Amish with an attitude]

"Evolution, looked at globally, is driven by the flow of energy from the sun"

Just add heat and enough time and a viable living cell is produced. You have great faith.