ABSTRACT
It is important to note, however, that all science is contingent and time bound – no science, not even physics has truly timeless laws. Chemistry has very empirically successful explanations and models of atomic interactions. Yet, atoms did not exist until 379,000 years after the Big Bang, so there was a period when the laws of chemistry did not exist. The regularities that chemistry describes are limited to a particular time and set of conditions. Likewise, the laws of evolution did not come into play until life was formed (whether on Earth or another planet). Some physicists even argue that time itself is not a fundamental property of the universe, but emerged as a post-Big Bang phenomenon too.
