(December 6, 2019 at 8:51 pm)Yukon_Jack Wrote: Boru, I think you’re splitting hairs concerning the definition of law.
“Scientific laws (also known as natural laws) imply a cause and effect between the observed elements and must always apply under the same conditions.”
I use it to describe the way things are always known to happen say 2+2 will always =4. Water always boils when certain conditions are met. But there is nothing that governs the order of nucleotides and that in itself lies the mystery of how these instructions came about.
John 6IX, am I in agreement with you?
There is nothing that governs the path of a lightning strike in detail. There is nothing that governs the weather in detail. There is nothing that governs which specific polymers are formed in a polymer reaction.
And yet, all of those obey the laws. It's just that the specific conditions play a larger role than, for example, the orbit of a planet, or the boiling of water.