Laws of nature

Chris Cogan (ccogan@sfo.com)
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 22:59:25 -0700

>Bert van: The laws of nature were either created according to some complex
design, or
>they arose by spontaneous generation. (If you can think of a third
>alternative, fine.)

Chris
You assume that they were created or generated. The third alternative is
that they were not created or generated at all.

Bertvan
>The "design" option looks more reasonable to me, and
>being an agnostic, I can refrain from speculating about any "designer".

Chris
Let me ask a question: Can you imagine a universe that COULD possibly exist
that would not provide "evidence" of "design"? I cannot imagine such a
universe, because anything that exists is subject to the basic law of
causation: A thing DOES what it IS. All possible universes are orderly,
though it's possible that they don't all support life (a universe with only
one atom in it, for example, would not support life).