Sceientific Law
What do we mean when we use the term "scientific law?"
Science is a study of the present universe. Scientists observe the material
universe in its present state and describe what they see. From a large number
of observations of some object or phenomenon, scientists observe that the
universe behaves in a certain orderly way.
Scientific laws or laws of
"nature" are simply scientists' descriptions of this orderly behavior...
Ya gotta understand that science did not invent the way nature behaves; it
simply describes it. Scientific laws are man's formulations of his
observations about the way the material universe behaves. Laws did not come
into existence because of science exists; science exists because nature
behaves in a predictable way.
Science, then is a description of the way
nature behaves. We express these descriptions in generalizations known as
scientific laws and these laws are understandable and can be communicated by
rational minds...
A basic question arise: Why are the laws of science as they are???
Why, for example, does the speed of light have its particular value? Why
isn't
it three times these value or half or some other multiple?
Out of the limitless possible values for the speed of light, why is it
what it is?
Answer: Creation ex nihilo. The laws of science are as they are because God
willed them to be that way. It's simple, but profound. An act of the will, a
choice, implies intelligence. It implies intelligence or mind behind the
universe. As [E.H. Andrews] puts it,
Without intelligence there is no true choosing but only a
response to the rules of chance. But before even THOSE rules
existed, a choice or distinction was made as to what they should be!
The unavoidable conclusion is, therefore, that intelligence
pre-existed the natural universe and the laws by which it
functions. The only escape from this argument lies in a total
agnosticism concerning the fundamental nature of scientific law.
The Creation Model has the stronger case. "In the beginning God...."
