Ecological Metaphysics: Room for a Creator

Yesterday, I engaged in no small amount of deconstruction. My aim, however, was not to belittle the laws of physics. Obviously, their formulations stand among the crowning achievements of the past three centuries. I did argue, however, that they are not the totalizing, all encompassing constraints that so many in science regard them to be. Their ontological status is usually exaggerated. There are historical, logical and practical reasons why the laws of physics, although inviolable, remain incapable of determining all that happens. Such inefficacy owes to the fact that, in order to be as general as possible, the universal laws must be cast in homogeneous terms. The living world, however, is munificently heterogeneous, and the enormous numbers of combinations among so many categories means that large numbers of possibilities attach themselves to any particular juxtaposition of laws. The laws are not violated. They simply lose their abilities to discriminate among equiponderant possibilities. The sheer magnitude of combinations defeats attempts to structure a determining set of boundary specifications.