(April 24, 2015 at 1:06 pm)Drew_2013 Wrote:True, but only in places and at times where-the universe operates unswervingly by laws of physics that are discoverable, are amenable to scientific inquiry and explicable in mathematical formulas, are uniform throughout the universe and make prediction and deduction possible.yet the universe operates unswervingly by laws of physics that are discoverable, are amenable to scientific inquiry and explicable in mathematical formulas, are uniform throughout the universe and make prediction and deduction possible.
At other times and places the universe acts stochastically, chaotically, or even (though we can't really tell) probably randomly.
Unless you can show that the whole of the universe acts according to "physical law," you can only make supported statements about the part of the universe that you can show acts according to "physical law." Extending this behavior to the parts not observable, is not empirically supportable.
You are amazed by the regularity of the tiny bit of the universe which you are amazed by....amazing.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?