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. Reality is stratified into many levels, and the higher levels are free from determinism from the lower levels.