Anatole France had something similar to say WRT "chance": "Chance is the pseudonym of God when he didn't want to sign."
Truly it is amazing that "life is not physical at all." It is a participation in Being that has a physical basis in this world, but it is not reducible to the chemistry or mechanics of that physical basis; i.e., it is not reducible to the physical laws. It is something "more." Being itself is not "physical" — for God, the I Am That Am (Being itself, in itself and as creative cause) is neither "physical" nor bound by any spatiotemporal constraint.
Or so it seems to me. Again referring back to the statements of the astronomer George V. Coyne, S.J., from a recent thread, creation is not a one-time start-up event "in the beginning," but a continuous process. It's interesting to note that it was Plato's view also that living entities exist by virtue of their participation in Being. Being is the first and final cause, the unchanging, everlasting, eternal "ground" of their existence, the constant cause of their livingness, from which they arise into physically-incarnated life, and into which they return at death.
Not for nothing do Christians call the I Am That Am "Our Father": There is no Life without Him.
Just some thoughts, FWIW. Thank you so very much for your insightful essay/post, dearest sister in Christ!
Thank you so much for sharing your insights and those of Anatole France, George V. Coyne, S.J. and Plato!
For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; - John 5:25-26