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A philosophical stance that understands nature as fundamentally processual, historical, and creative—not a fixed order of timeless laws but an ongoing unfolding of novel forms, structures, and possibilities. Dynamic naturalism rejects both supernaturalism (explanations outside nature) and static mechanism (nature as clockwork), insisting that nature itself is the source of all the change, complexity, and creativity we observe. Evolution is not a deviation from natural order but its core expression; emergence is not mystery but nature's normal mode of operation; novelty is not illusion but what nature constantly produces. Dynamic naturalism is what you get when you take nature seriously enough to include its history, its creativity, and its open-endedness in your understanding of what nature is.
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