Darwin introduces indeterminacy int

Darwin introduces indeterminacy into the Newtonian universe, a closed system in which matter is governed by a relatively small number of invari-able,predictive laws(Newton1999). Ifonecould somehow take a snapshot of the Newtonian universe at any one moment, one could predict the future of any element within it, as well as its place within the detailed configuration as a whole. Newton posited a regular, predictable universe in which life, if it could understand and utilize those consistencies, would find itself at home, would tend to mastery, to understanding and control. Darwin sought to model his own scientific endeavors on such an enlightened and rational un-derstanding of the role of science in rendering life safe, but what he produced was a very different account: life can be life onlybecause the universe,at least as far as the living are concerned, is where it is never fully at home, where it can never remain stable, where it must undergo change both in itself, at the level of individuals, as well as over generations, at the level of species or populations. Operating at a different, a faster or slower rate of speed than much of the material universe, life is always challenged to overcome itself, to invent new methods,regions, tactics, and goals, to differ from itself, to continually invent solutions to the problems of survival its universe poses to it, using the resources the universe offers it,for its own self-overcoming.