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- What do we mean when we use the term "scientific law?"
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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...
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- 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?
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- 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,
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- The Creation Model has the stronger case. "In the beginning God...."
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