Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the second law of thermodynamics go in direct contrast with the theory of evolution? And if that's the case, how can you have a scientific theory that goes against a scientific law?

Surely there's a FAQ out there somewhere with this sort of stuff in, but, for the record, the second law of thermodynamics says that in a closed system, entropy (disorder) tends to increase. Life on earth is not a closed system, it has a continuous (vast!) energy feed from the sun. If we take the whole solar system, then that's (for all intents and purposes) a closed system. Come back when the sun has exhausted its finite amount of fusionable hydrogen, the planets have been mined for all their finite supply of fuels, and vulcanism caused by the finite amount of radioactive material in planets' cores has died away, and then see how much evolution you can find going on.

Very large closed systems can take very large amounts of time to reach highly unordered states. There is no breach of the second law of thermodynamics here, move along.

Peter