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How?

If you had just kept reading: "It certainly violates the 2nd Law of Thermo that complex life could come from a system evolving toward inert uniformity." If you don't understand what's being said, just say so.

Here's a secret: There still is entropy. Open systems have it too.

Must be the best kept secret in science! By definition, entropy is measured in a closed system. Your deficiencies are showing...

Many physicists have an opinion on who is hotter, Alba or Jolie. That still doesn't make it part of any physics theory.

I'm just about done with your nonsense. You still have not engaged the conversation on anything but a "you're wrong" level. I like this topic but I'm not going to waste my time on an intellectual black hole.

"It certainly violates the 2nd Law of Thermo that complex life could come from a system evolving toward inert uniformity." If you don't understand what's being said, just say so."

Where is that stated in the 2nd law? When was the earth a system evolving toward inert uniformity?

"Must be the best kept secret in science! By definition, entropy is measured in a closed system. Your deficiencies are showing..."

My God, you really don't know anything about basic physics. Entropy is always increasing, in closed and in open systems. The only known closed system is the universe itself. Every other system is open, and the Earth is most certainly an open system. That doesn't mean that the reactions taking place on Earth are exempt from the 2nd Law. They aren't. They all decrease the amount of energy available to do work in the universe. It's not a problem for life because the Sun more than compensates, on a local scale, for this entropy.

"You still have not engaged the conversation on anything but a "you're wrong" level."

That's a lie.

"Must be the best kept secret in science! By definition, entropy is measured in a closed system. Your deficiencies are showing...

I don't know where you are getting your information from but entropy is measurable in open systems too. In the 2LoT (ignore statistical mechanics) entropy is most readily visualized as the diffusion of heat from a 'hot' system to the cooler surroundings. This can be measured in both a closed and an open system.