(February 16, 2016 at 7:46 am)paulpablo Wrote: The argument of where do the laws of the universe come from has always seemed stupid to me, unless I'm understanding it incorrectly.
Is it because they are called laws that you think it must be like a law involving the police and the government? So you're saying well we have these laws but who put them there?
The scientific laws of the universe are principles which usually describe or predict things, the way things behave independent of any outside supernatural force, they're governed by non sentient physical forces.
The laws exist only because things have certain properties and react certain ways predictably, not because god is like the universe policeman shaking a club menacingly at anything that dares to disobey the laws of gravitation or relativity.
You are understanding it correctly, Theses people actually think there is a law that something like gravity must follow, that has been put in place to make gravity do what it does. Otherwise gravity would be running wild, causing chaos and anarchy, lol.
