[Second Law Of Thermodynamics] We may be sure, however, that the mind-boggling increase in order, complexity and information accomplished by the evolution of chemicals to man in no way violates this law or it wouldn't have happened. That is a rather circular argument which assumes the law to be totally valid while at the same time excluding the notion of design on a higher scale in operation. Biological entities, for a time, appear to overcome entropy, on the scale of their existence and the existence of their offspring.
"Phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny" ... lost in the grudging acceptance of facts.
It's clear you two either can't correctly state the Second Law, or you two are deliberately misstating it to concoct straw men.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics applies to "closed systems". Living forms are capable of reducing entropy within them simply because they are "open systems" and can thus export entropy to their environment. No circularity, no magic.