I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the laws of nature have actually evolved along with nature itself, and perhaps they are still evolving. Or perhaps they are not laws at all, but more like habits.

The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.