Evolution Over Fixed Laws: The Cosmos Emerges From Change

Biologist Timothy Jackson argues that the laws of physics are not eternal givens but descriptions of patterns that persist in a fundamentally changing, lawless cosmos. In biology, variation is abundant and inherently unpredictable, yet natural selection produces order. Darwin’s insight shows how variation plus selection explains stable patterns without invoking invariant physical laws, urging a shift from physics-dominated thinking to a biologically grounded metaphysics (biologism) to understand how structured order emerges from change.