Reply #1: Just a sciencey nitpick here along with some other ideas

[Salviati]

I think the term that you'd want to use is entropy, not chaos. Entropy refers to the amount of "disorder" in a system, or slightly less bad way to put it is that entropy measures the amount of information needed to describe a system. E.g. a perfectly orderly crystal has very low entropy, as once you specify where one atom is, and the orientation of the crystal, the locations of all the other atoms are determined. Compare this to a random pile of atoms, which has very high entropy, as you have to specify the location of every atom individually.

Chaos refers to how in some systems, the future progression of the system depends extremely sensitively on the current state of the system. So that two very slightly different starting conditions may end up producing vastly different outcomes. As a physics teacher I can't help but be a stickler for at least pointing out the technical definitions of science terms. :)

As far as more philosophical and metaphysics are concerned, to me what this speaks to is the fact that creation and destruction are inseparably linked. Life in general creates order from the disorder in the universe, but does so at the expense of creating greater disorder elsewhere. The total entropy must always go up, even though locally it may decrease. What this means is that we are ultimately linked to our surroundings, we cannot live apart from them. Any act of creation must inevitably be linked to an act of destruction. All the increase in order found in the living things on earth are feeding off of the massive increase in entropy as the sun burns away. It's kind of like when you realize that almost every living thing sustains itself by consuming things that were also once living, only on a more fundamental basis.