The sentiment in the positivist and even theological traditions relating to order and chaos may possibly be incorrect, or at the very least be prejudiced. The alternative for it is given below; as it is without prejudice, for judgment.
Elements, forces and time such as it exists now ultimately is not tending towards chaos but is tending to order and nothingness of the undifferentiated whole. It is the sporadic action of chaos that is observable at the moment as the variety of the world. It is this chaos that allows for the essential differentiation required for life. Order is ever pulling the universe to inanimation. It is ripples of chaos in it that keeps things in motion. What is now perceived as excesses of entropy, the unbounded expansion of the universe, is actually a prejudice against entropy. Entropy is measurable, which makes it formidable. The opposite of entropy(stillness) is not measurable, hence it carries with it an aura of nobiliy. It is chaos which moved the universe from the absolute, even, whole into the differentiated whole. It was what precipitated variety in world. Where there would have just been ONE (one what? ) there is now many (many what not). The greater force of order will surely come about and THAT rather than chaos will bring about the destruction of the universe.
Chaos is essential to life as we understand and worship. In the origin of the material essential for life from the primordial soup of undifferentiated time, particles and forces, it was chaos that played the part of the prime mover.
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