Then the growth of our body, the spontaneous and autonomous morphogenesis, rests upon the properties of proteins. Biological information is inherently determined by chance. In the 19th century, the French physicist Pierre Laplace suggested that, known the position and motion of all the particles in the universe, Physics could predict the evolution of the universe into the future. Once the initial conditions are known, the whole story of a particle if known. Once all the stories of all the particles are known, the story of the whole system is known.
Chance alone is the source of all innovation and creation in the biosphere.
The biosphere is a unique occurrence non reducible from first principles. DNA is a registry of chance. The universe has no purpose and no meaning. Biogenesis is more like history than like a physical science. In reality, what Monod highlighted is that the structures and processes on the lower level of an organism do not place any restrictions on higher level structures and processes.