Abstract
We live in a universe that appears to operate smoothly according to a set of laws which we do not fully understand. Furthermore we have 2 completely different and apparently opposing sciences to describe this universe – the life sciences; biology, organic chemistry, and the physical sciences; inorganic chemistry, physics... And so we may ask, is it not redundant to have 2 completely different sets of laws to govern a single universe, especially as biological systems clearly integrate seamlessly with physical systems. We know there is a biological science, we ourselves are evidence of this, and so if there is only 1 set of laws that govern our universe, then I submit that these laws may be the laws of organic systems, in other words, the physical sciences may themselves be life sciences.
Malcolm Macleod