To the best of our knowledge entropy, or the amount of energy unavailable to do work in a complex system, can never decrease, leading to the awkward conclusion that good works in the present exhaust the very energy necessary for good works in the future. It is with this verity, the amount of energy increasingly unavailable to do work within a system, that we must ultimately reconcile our notions of evil if they are to be anything more than the stratagems of a demagogue or the expression of a bias.