Although we do not agree with the position of Holmes, it must be said that if evolution is true, then Holmes' conclusions are inescapable. For most of these thinkers, the only real law is positive law, the law of the state. Positive, or state, law repudiates the notion of any higher law which stands over man and the state. The Christian Answer Christianity repudiates the old natural-law concepts even more strongly than did Darwin and Holmes. First, Christianity does not believe that nature has any power, mind, consciousness or will in aid of itself.
Nature is simply a collective noun, a name for the sum total of the universe.
Christianity which is Biblical Christianity, has no use for any form of personification of nature save as a literary device to convey some message. Hence, strictly speaking, Christianity speaks not of the law of nature but the laws over nature. Second, Christianity does not teach that nature is normative. This is the error of the moral anarchists. Nature is infected by sin and death.