Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.

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

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.

If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?

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.