Evolution as Entropy Versus Organization

'Evolution doesn't view earth's history as a conflict between good and evil. It does essentially view it as a conflict between life and death, between increased organization and more efficient energy use on the part of life, and an opposing tendency of nonliving matter to become disorganized and lose energy--entropy. But evolution doesn't see life as good and death as evil. Life cannot triumph over death in evolution. They don't fight to win. As with some of the older myths, wherein the natural dualities of light and darkness, sun and moon, male and female, performed an eternal, amoral dance of opposites, evolutionary life and death are interdependent: two halves of the world. Evolution would be impossible if organisms did not die.'

David Rains Wallace, The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution (April 24, 2003)