ABSTRACT
This chapter continues the discussion of dualism with a deeper dive into the ontologies of the material and transcendent worlds. A brief historical survey confirms that the former remains fundamentally unknown to us and, moreover, that the tools of conscious inquiry (as heuristic components of the transcendent domain) are equally mysterious in terms of their intrinsic nature. The question of why the universe is ordered and intelligible is raised and preliminary explanations proferred. This discussion sets up a tension between science and theology, calling for a re-evaluation of both domains in order to answer both how and why questions as they pertain to the global environmental crisis.
