The thermodynamic law that devolution rules was based on steam engines that don’t evolve, but our universe is evolving, and quantum theory is why. The same quantum law that drives the second law also allows evolution when exploring every option leads to ordered combinations that survive. For example, when electrons found stable orbits around protons to create atoms, order increased. Atoms evolve by nucleosynthesis in stars to increase order permanently, as a lead atom is 82 protons, 125 neutrons, and 82 electrons in a high order state with a half-life of millions of years, so for us it is permanent.
A cool fridge on a hot day needs a power supply to stay cold, but lead atoms don’t need any energy to stay ordered, just an unlikely sequence of past events, and eggs are the same. Matter evolves by finding unlikely combinations that survive, not by maintaining a heat imbalance. For example, that extreme light collided head-on (4.3.1) is by any standard a very unlikely event, but the electron result stable. Order increased when light entangled into an electron, but no energy maintains it, so the evolution of matter increases order without an ongoing energy cost.
This doesn’t contradict the second law, that energy is needed to create order, because the search for stable combinations needs energy. Evolution lets atoms lawfully form ordered molecules like water, until eventually super-molecules like RNA that copy themselves led to the cells that made us, so the evolution of life followed on from the evolution of matter.
The same flux that creates disorder also allows order to evolve, as order is possible for the same reason that disorder is probable. Evolution creates order by finding possible states and devolution creates disorder by finding probable states, but the same quantum law causes both, so there is no evolution without devolution. If evolution was limited to biology, the second law might reign supreme, but matter also evolves, so it is just as universal as devolution. For our universe to possibly evolve, it must also probably decay, so devolution can be seen as a necessary byproduct of evolution, just as neutrinos are of electrons.
The evolution of matter is an anti-entropy process that physics doesn’t recognize, but it occurs. Evolution was built into our universe at its quantum inception, so its evolution is as fundamental as heat flows, and it explains what the second law can’t, that life exists because order evolved.