As the Nobel laureate and University of California–Berkeley chemist Melvin Calvin argued, the notion of an “Order of Nature” was “discovered 2,000 or 3,000 years ago, and enunciated first in the Western world by the ancient Hebrews.”32 Calvin notes that the monotheistic worldview of the ancient Hebrews suggested a reason to expect a single coherent order in nature and thus a single, universally applicable set of laws governing the natural world.
