I am starting to understand a few things better now, having studied this paper for the second time now. When I first read Ray's paper it did not make any sense that he states that "out of order comes chaos" and then a bit further in the paper he changes to "for chaos comes order"......it was not making any sense.
The second time around having studied it I am seeing things in a more spiritual way and I am getting immensely excited at the awesome God that we serve.
Ray states in his paper, "there is a systematic flow of disorder, chaos or evening to order - cosmos, order or morning. To appreciate this rarity of flow of disorder to order we must at this point acquire more understanding of the laws of thermodynamics. Entropy, chaos, out of order. Not order out of chaos. Then he writes, "The laws of thermodynamics that control the universe is bringing something that is orderly into disorder and chaos, everywhere always." See how easy it is to get confused? I am not an scientist at all, give me paint and a paintbrush anytime.
Now comes the major psycho-physiologic question; If the universe trend is towards chaos, why is there order at all?
If the basic laws of physics dictate that orderly things slow down, get colder, deteriorate and go from order to chaos, why is there order anywhere in the universe? It seems to defy the laws of thermodynamics, which work on everything, always everywhere.
Why would God do that? Why would He make something that by it's very nature it starts to fall apart, break down and become useful? There is a spiritual lesson here.
Onkelos perceived that a qualitative change in the nature of the universe had occurred. A change from disorder without the possibility of life, to order with life.
“And God saw everything that He made and behold it was a unified order.” Well what was it before? Chaos.
It was chaos, then every created period went from chaos to order… from chaos to order… from chaos to order until finally at the end of the six periods, everything was a unified order. That’s how God got rid of the chaos. God uses a process. Why does He use that process? Why does He do a lot of things? God does strange things.
And yet, within a limited portion of the universe highly ordered structures have appeared. We humans are the most extreme example of such local order.
The Author of Genesis thought this flow towards order was sufficiently important and exceptional, to emphasize it at regular repartition, “and it was evening and there was morning.”
Because everything else in science and in the universe goes the other way. But God is making this go contrary to that. Life is different. Life is special.
God created in wisdom, in creating us (humans) He has confounded the wisdom of the world, thermodynamics etc and out of chaos He has created us.
Spiritually for me I am being created out of chaos.....struggles of the world, the beast within, trials and tribulations into something that represents order. He will bring us to perfection, but know now that we are in the process of being perfected/ordered.