At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

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 science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

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

I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

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.