In Aristotelian philosophy matter develops because the entelechy pushes it
into doing so. Today's postscientists don't wish to use the Aristotelian
concept and automatically say "because the entropy increases" when asked to
explain anything. They prefer the modern concept because, apart from being
incomprehensible, it involves a number of absurdities that irreversibly
damage the rationality of anyone involved. Some of the absurdities:
1. That the entropy is a state function was proved by Clausius for a
reversible cycle undergone by AN IDEAL GAS. Postscientists apply the same
proof for ANY reversible cycle (see P. Atkins, Physical Chemistry, 5th ed.,
p. 132).
3. The formula for the entropy change in non-equilibrium systems (eq. 4.13
in I. Prigogine, "From Being to Becoming", 1980) is an oxymoron resulting
from the mechanical combination of the incommensurable equations 4.2 and
4.3'. Moreover, eq. 4.3' itself is an oxymoron since Gibbs introduced it
for equilibrium systems whereas Prigogine (and other postscientists) have
applied it to non-equilibrium systems.
It makes a lot of sense to return to the concept of entelechy since the
concept of entropy is much more pernicious.