Entropy certainly plays a big role in the nature of life, but there are important aspects that it doesn’t capture. Entropy characterizes individual states at a single moment in time, but the salient features of life involve processes that evolve through time. By itself, the concept of entropy has only very crude implications for evolution through time: It tends to go up or stay the same, not go down. The Second Law says nothing about how fast entropy will increase, or the particular methods by which entropy will grow—it’s all about Being, not Becoming.
