I'd recommend Henri Bergson's Time and Free Will for mind opening view of time. Imo it elaborates on the distinction between space time and our temporal experience.
It would also make sense evolution would choose not to change this programming.
There are also species of animals that literally do not age.
The saying that entropy always wins the war is disingenuous as life wins the battles that we can see insofar.
Why did consciousness arise from matter at all, does it disappear or is it transformed.
If you only limit yourself to what you can see then existence is rather dull and seemingly mechanically. Every time we look we see little more, and so is there really anything to suggest there is not more beyond what we can or will ever see.