Quakerism versus chaos

Bob Johnson considers how his Quaker faith helps him to face the chaos around him

by Bob Johnson 2nd December 2011

Darwin misjudged it – it’s not so much survival of the fittest, it’s survival. In the Arctic, the woolly mammoth grew fur, which its African cousins didn’t; bats can’t see at night, so hunt by sonar; deserts are dry, but camels don’t die of thirst, they adapt. In fact the physical world is so harsh, changeable and unreliable, the real miracle is that life has survived at all. But it has. Thermodynamics rules that the environment must always disintegrate, its disorganisation or ‘entropy’ invariably increases all the time – ‘climate change’ is the norm – except for living things.