existence. Thus our discussions of origins tend to focus on material origins.38 However, “people in the ancient world,” argues Walton, “believed that something existed not by virtue of its material properties, but by virtue of its having a function in an ordered system.”39 By “ordered system,” we are not speaking in scientific terms; rather, it has to do with “an ordered system in human terms, that is, in relation to society and culture.”40 Walton continues, In this sort of functional ontology, the