Why Modern Science Isn't About Causation Law

Maybe we shouldn't think of modern science as giving us causes at all, but sometimes just correlations. You don't get a cat by starting with something that isn't a cat and then arranging it to the point where you get a cat. The atoms are the matter and what makes them a cat is their arrangements. On this way of thinking the football example isn't so far off after all. It's really a question of much more complicated causal interactions. What would a client say about this?