I'm paraphrasing from memory and Ted will doubtless correct and expand me. Engels in Anti-Duhring called the unity (i.e. order) of the 'universe' an empirical question, which could only be answered by the totality of the natural sciences (which of course would never be complete, hence the qustion would remain forever open). We simply do not know and cannot every know if the universe ("nature") exhibits order or "is order." I'm not sure it is even a usefuly hypothesis, though that is arguable.
Carrol
^^^ CB: On this issue, Engels subscribes to the idea of the dialectic of relative and absolute truth. Absolute truth is infinite, and so as finite beings humans can't know it. However, he thinks that we do apprehend "order" in the relative truths we learn. There is progress in knowledge. Lenin reiterates the main points in _Materialism and empirio-criticism_
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