Order and disorder

Submitted by John B (United Kingdom), May 25, 2014 at 03:26

You say:

" . . . But I am not so much talking about a debased form of democracy as an evolution toward something civilized; . . . "

which does indeed indicate the power of the concept of evolution as a theory (or accepted fact?).

However, evolution can only lead to deterioration unless it is conforming to some pre-existing and constructive order. This is the point that secular evolutionists miss.

Order, left to itself, tends to disorder, not order. And cannot arise without some input from an ordered system already in existence.

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