[ahayes]

Then why isn't there life on Venus and Mercury?

Great, why don't you ask why there isn't life on the Sun next?

Totally ignoring the second law issue (which does not create a problem for the theory of evolution) there is the minor detail that there is no liquid water on either planet, which pretty much rules out life to begin with.

[Boiler Plate]

which pretty much rules out life to begin with.

Only life as you know it.