(February 18, 2016 at 4:37 pm)Harris Wrote:(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.
All objects of experience are characterized by generic and specific properties. Ponder over this question:
Why the form of a material thing became the manner in which material particles combined, with their relationship giving rise to the specific properties of the material thing?
I don't know what objects of experience are, I don't know what it means when you say ""Why the form of a material thing became the manner in which material particles combined."
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