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, because exploring every option discovers ordered combinations that survive. For example, when electrons found stable orbits around protons in atoms, order increased. A lead atom is 82 protons, 125 neutrons, and 82 electrons in a highly ordered state that has a half-life of millions of years, which is essentially permanent.
A cool fridge on a hot day needs a power supply to stay cold, but lead atoms don’t need 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 resulting electron is 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 form ordered molecules like water, then super-molecules like RNA that copy themselves, leading to the cells that made us. The biological evolution of life then just followed on from the physical evolution of matter, as a natural extension.
The quantum flux that underlies the second law of thermodynamics also underpins evolution, so one can’t exist without the other. Evolution needs constant change to discover highly-ordered possibilities like us, but that same change inevitably causes decay, so order is possible for the same reason that disorder is probable. Evolution increases order by finding possible states and devolution increases disorder by finding probable states, but both are based on the same quantum cause.
In current physics, everything is falling apart, but it is also coming together, as the evolution of matter is an anti-entropy process that occurs in stars and supernovas. If evolution was limited to biology, the second law might reign supreme, but matter also evolves, so evolution is also universal. Evolution was built into our universe at its inception, so it is as fundamental as heat flows, and can explain what the second law can’t, that life exists because order evolved. For a universe to possibly evolve it must also probably decay, so devolution is the inevitable shadow of evolution, just as neutrinos are like shadow electrons.