Axiom #15:

“All life struggles to advance from the simple to the complex.”

All life either progresses or regresses. It moves either forward or backward. Nothing is static. There is only the appearance of stillness or lack of motion. What the eye cannot detect the electron microscope can. Where there appears to be no motion there is a constant bustle of activity at a level below the perceptive ability of our sight or touch.

When we examine the universe of nature we find that it is comprised of four basic kingdoms. There is the mineral, the vegetable, the animal, and there is the human kingdom. The mineral is the simplest of these four and the human is the most complex. In the human kingdom we discover the mineral, the vegetable, and the animal kingdoms with the added complexity of abstract and intellectual attributes not present in the other three. In the animal kingdom we find the vegetable and the mineral. In the vegetable kingdom we find the mineral and in all of these kingdoms we discover the universal laws of nature are in operation and from which none can escape.

Each of these kingdoms can be reduced to common constituents that exist in the microcosm, however, at this infinitesimal level none of these kingdoms exist in fact but exist only potentially. These microscopic elements can only be reduced so far before their detectable presence as a form of matter vanishes and all that remains is the energy that animated them and which is then available to animate some new expression of matter as it emerges to begin its journey from the simple to the complex. The building blocks of matter are never destroyed but, rather, dissimilate to their most rudimentary existence. The conservation of matter is a fundamental proposition of science. Matter may decompose and return to its constituent elements but only the particular form is destroyed not the matter itself. Matter will always begin a new journey in a new form, from simple to complex, until some external force is brought to bear upon it to disrupt this process and reduce it once again to its original existence.

Even when we observe some organism embarked on a journey from the complex to the simple, i.e. the virus, we are, nonetheless, compelled to admit that at some stage in its evolution by which it achieved that complexity that it had been in a more simple stage of existence while on its journey and that, at the present time, although still quite complex, has devised a new and more energy conserving tactic by which to replicate itself, i.e. penetrating and hiding within the cell of some other organism and adapting its DNA to replicate itself geometrically thereby eliminating the need to carry the extra burden of this self-same DNA on its own journey. An energy efficient plan within which it still remains highly complex. You cannot become complex unless you have first been simple. There is no such thing as instantaneous complexity. Complexity is arrived at gradually through evolution which is consistent with those principles inherent in all nature created by God.