There's A Certain Kind Of Scepticism That

Contemporary Science Is Based On The Philosophy Of Materialism, Which Claims That All Reality Is Material Or Physical.

Because A Truly Skeptical Position Would Be A Very Uncertain One.

So There’s A Kind Of Resurgence Of The Sense Of Freedom And Spontaneity In Nature. From Nature Being Bound Into A Rigid, Deterministic Model, Freedom, Spontaneity And Openness Are Emerging Once Again. It’s Now Recognized The Future Is Open, Not Determined By The Past. And This Is True In Many Realms, The Astronomical Realm, The Human Realm, The Meteorological Realm In Many Ways.

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 Gaia Hypothesis Of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] Puts Forward A Scientific View Of The Living Earth, Which In One Respect Is Modern, Empherical, Scientific, In Another Respect Re-awakens An Ancient Archetype, Which In Fact Is So Clearly Suggested By The Very Name Of The Hypothesis, Gaia, The Greek Name For Mother Earth.