Ed1Wolf, you are still missing the basics of the laws of thermodynamics. I gave you the formula. When heat transfers from one body to another, the object transferring heat loses entropy by an amount q/T, where q is the amount of energy transferred, and T is the temperature of the hot body. The body gaining heat increases in entropy by q/T, where T is the temperature of the cold body.
When the sun transfer heat to the earth, it loses energy and entropy. The earth gains energy and entropy. Likewise when the earth transfers heat to space, the earth loses energy and entropy.
On the average, the earth gains as much energy as it loses, so we stay about the same temperature (although recent changes in atmospheric CO2 are slightly changing the energy balance).
However, earth loses entropy. The surfaces of the earth that receive heat are, on the average, hotter than the surfaces that radiate heat. Since T (temperature) is in the denominator, q/T outgoing is greater than q/T incoming, even though q in equals q out. Hence the outside universe causes the earth to decrease in entropy.
But internal processes within the earth increase the earth's entropy. The increase in entropy due to earth's processes are roughly equal to the decreases caused by the outside universe. So life goes on.
See
Does Life On Earth Violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics (gmu.edu) .
This is absolutely false. Every time a body decreases in entropy, someplace else in the universe must increase in entropy by at least that amount. Living things are no exception. Measure the differences in the entropy of what you take in (food, oxygen) and what you put out (waste, CO2) and you will see that the net result of food/oxygen/work/waste/CO2 is a
net increase in entropy. But if you look at just the human work, and ignore everything else, well uh, that's amazing!
So does life.
Yep. And it is all caused by the processes described above, and by a similar process involving radioactive heat from within the earth. Hot and cold areas in the earth cause continents to move and mountains to be pushed up. Hot and cold areas in the atmosphere cause wind and water cycles that cause erosion that buries things under high pressure to form things like petroleum and diamonds.
Yep. And yet the atmosphere, in turn, is able to radiate that increased entropy into outer space. As long as there is a mechanism to transfer entropy from water vapor to the atmosphere to outer space, then low entropy snow can form spontaneously.
Low entropy snow forms by itself. Unlike things you buy on Amazon, no human assembly is required.
Likewise proteins are the result of natural systems seeking that state which is driven by the laws of thermodynamics.
More correctly, they are designed to use low entropy resources like food and oxygen to drive processes that decrease entropy locally, while producing even more high entropy waste products.
None of this in any way refutes the second law of thermodynamics. None of this in any way refutes evolution. As long as the mechanism is there to utilize the high energy, low entropy source, things can happen. And that is the marvel of carbon. In the right circumstances, carbon spontaneously forms things like petroleum, diamonds, proteins, RNA, amoeba, trees, and persons.