==Devolution is Evolution. They are exactly the same. Why do we have two words? Because we can.
They are not the same. The TOE would have us believe that life’s pattern is best represented by a single tree that began with lower organisms that evolve into higher organisms. Creationists believe life’s pattern displays just the opposite. Namely, that life began with the creation of the highest organisms, and is slowly devolving into lower organisms. Big difference.
The TOE doesn’t require or infer increasing complexity. That is a later addition by exegetes of limited cognizance. Stochastics has nothing to do with it either, but that is a different idea.