"...the universe is either a chaos or a logos..."
-Would You Baptize An Extraterrestrial? (New York, 2014), p. 226)
Two observations:
(i) In Christian theology, which is their standpoint, the term logos is applied to the divine creative principle. Therefore, I suggest that, within the created universe, the contrast should be between chaos and cosmos.
(ii) However, can statistics and quantum mechanics not synthesize these antitheses? Thus, a single reality would appear to be either chaotic or ordered depending on perspective? In Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series, quantum chaos underlies causality:
"'To [the Tyrians] the world isn't entirely governed by laws of nature; it's capricious, changeable, magical.'
"And they're fundamentally right, aren't they? The chill struck deeper into Everard." (Time Patrol, p. 254)
Meanwhile, KW Jeter's Morlock Night is readable but more like a work that references The Time Machine than like a sequel. But this has made me think again about comparing The Time Machine and the Time Patrol...
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