The Word made Law?
Channel: rozeboosje
Date: 13/06/2012

Some people like to think of themselves as rational. They scoff at Christians who claim that "God's Word" brought the World into existence. But without a hint of irony those same people will assert that reality is "governed" by "laws of nature". Which is a nonsensical assertion to make. Considering how amazingly accurate some of the laws of nature we learn about in school are, you might be excused for thinking this. But you'd still be wrong. Please hear me out.

Laws of nature don't GOVERN reality. They are the way we humans speak about the regularities we observe within reality, they are an extension of the language we evolved in order to communicate with each other. Because "laws of nature" are highly formalised, based on mathematics and tested against reality we humans have managed to produce statements in this "language" with which we can express how reality behaves with an astonishing level of accuracy. But if we start thinking that reality is SUBJECT to those laws of nature, that's akin to thinking that some "god" spake the world into being. And the notion of "determinism" is the ultimate fallacy based on putting that cart before that horse.