Entropy measures the amount of waste heat that can not be turned into work. A power plant uses tons of coal every day to "replace" this waste heat that is lost. In the same way, the earth uses the sun to replace the energy that is lost due to entropy. Life doesn't contradict this, since everything alive gets energy from the sun, however indirectly.
Dr. Henry Morris:
The Second Law proves, as certainly as science can prove anything whatever, that the universe had a beginning. Similarly, the First Law shows that the universe could not have begun itself. The total quantity of energy in the universe is a constant, but the quantity of available energy is decreasing. Therefore, as we go backward in time, the available energy would have been progressively greater until, finally, we would reach the beginning point, where available energy equaled total energy. Time could go back no further than this. At this point both energy and time must have come into existence. Since energy could not create itself, the most scientific and logical conclusion to which we could possibly come is that: "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth."
The evolutionist will not accept this conclusion, however. He hypothesizes that either: (1) some natural law canceling out the Second Law prevailed far back in time, or (2) some. natural law canceling out the Second Law prevails far out in space.
When he makes such assumptions, however, he is denying his own theory, which says that all things can be explained in terms of presently observable laws and processes. He is really resorting to creationism, but refuses to acknowledge a Creator.
Isaac Asimov: The universe and the earth are becoming more disorderly and the sun isn't stopping this or reversing established scientific law.