[js1138]

Perhap you would care to clarify and expand on your question. If you are searching for some evolutionary equivalent of a purpose or goal, you won't find one. That would be like searching for a purpose in the specific arrangement of the stars and planets. There might be on in God's eye, but we are still looking through that glass darkly, remember. If evolution is leading in a direction, we mortals are not likely to be able to perceive it. We can, however, perceive the process.

[unspun]

I like your observations (thought the same material that speaks of the dark glass speaks clearly of some of God's purposees).

But the question was about how much actual scientifically demonstrable evidence there is out there in the universe for either stasis, or on the one hand, changes toward ever increasing complexity, or on the other hand, changes towrard degradation.

This is important of course, if one attemptes as betty boop, cornelis, etc. pointed out, to extend (overextend) what we know of any evolutionary processes into being universal explanations of our existence.

(Alas, Rachy seems to be out of FR space.)