{Chaos out of Order}[2nd April 1979]

[Redbook2:145][19790402:2315]{Chaos out of Order}[2nd April 1979]

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This occurred to me again last night, as a possibility, and I may have recorded some of it before, although I think not all: that in 'The Beginning' there was Unity, and it created Diversity; so, reversing normal beliefs, in the beginning there was Order, and God created Chaos: and out of the tension of Order and Chaos, we came. So Entropy, which I (but not the C[oncise] O[xford] D[ictionary]) for this purpose regards as the tendency noted by scientists for the Universe to move from apparent Order to apparent Chaos, may in fact be a movement from Order-with-Chaos (us) through Chaos back to Order, since presumably perfect Chaos can only be perfect Order. Possibly the creative tension of Order and Chaos is decreasing, as they move together – or rather, as Chaos moves back towards Order, and so towards us, although to us it would seem as though we are moving towards Chaos. I am not sure why we should not seem equally to be moving towards Order, except that possibly by its nature Order cannot appear to move or be moved-towards.

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