Laws Of Nature And Miracles
Laws of nature are generalized descriptions of patterns and regularities in the world. They don’t have any ontic cloud of their own. In other words, a law is just a mathematical equation derived by induction over many observations of how something generally functions in the world. For example, the Boyle’s law describes a negative relationship between pressure and volume of gas. In all of our experiments the volume of gas under different pressures behaved in a manner that as we increased the pressure, the volume of gas decreased and vice versa. We generalized our observations and called it a law. Did we conduct our experiments under every single possible condition that can ever exist in our universe? Most certainly not. What if gas was designed to behave like this on every single day except September 26, 2022? What if gas was designed to behave like this in every possible condition except when a certain level of microwave radiation was present in the environment? What if gas was designed to function differently at a particular point in this universe? We can’t be sure. Boyle’s law can be falsified at any time by an observation against the general pattern. Similarly, what if the Creator of this universe orders gas to behave in a different manner at a certain instance of time? The possibility certainly exists. We know from the Quran that God is all knowing and all powerful. If we have believed in such a God then we should have no reservations about miracles given to prophets at all.