The physical sciences are largely an uncovering of the order of creation. Had not God decreed those laws of nature which Sir Isaac Newton and others discovered, there would have been no creation but mere chaos.
Genesis describes the creation as a process of bringing order out of chaos.
A human society can no more survive in chaos than can the universe as a whole. Faced with the choice between despotism and chaos, societies always opt for despotism because chaos is the absolute enemy. Even democratic societies must have law and order. All societies have laws proscribing murder, rape, theft and a myriad other acts deemed destructive. Beyond these laws we need standards of all kinds.