I have wondered for some time now about the late, great Ernst Mayr's seeming insistence that biology is so separate from physics, that it needs to declare itself a "sovereign" discipline of the natural sciences, that at once requires all "intelligent" people to bend the knee to Darwinian evolutionary theory, while at the same time maintaining that Darwinian evolutionary theory isn't a straightjacket on human thought.
The late, great Mayr evidently did not consider possibilities other than evidence that can be gathered from direct observation, direct perception.
I wonder what he is perceiving now. R.I.P. Tricky problem there. I don't think he solved it. Much to his rue as I imagine.
Biology is held to be, like, its own MAGIC!
None of this asking the various parts of living plants and animals to follow those PHYSICAL laws and then seeing what conclusions you come to... that would be too MUNDANE.
Weirdness of weirdnesses... echos of the supernatural here without actually acknowledging it!
Too bad we don't get to hit an undo button on life.