Why are the "laws" of physics so different as conceived by many xtian fundamentalist?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Because Christian fundamentalists, as a general rule, know as much about physics as a hedgehog knows about a harpsichord. They look at the physical sciences as a way to validate their Bronze Age notions about the world, as opposed to using science to learn how the world wags and what wags it.

Boru

[brewer]

If'n ya ain't fer us, yer again us. If'n yer again the book, yer again us. Thar ain't no law that ain't in the book!

[Minimalist]

Why are the "laws" of physics so different as conceived by many xtian fundamentalist?

Because they are stupid and science is hard.

[vorlon13]

If'n ya ain't fer us, yer again us. If'n yer again the book, yer again us. Thar ain't no law that ain't in the book!

The BOOK !!

The BLOOD !!!

The BLESSED HOPE !!!!

[Fireball]

Why are the "laws" of physics so different as conceived by many xtian fundamentalist?

Because they are stupid and science is hard.

Even if you are smart, science is hard.

[robvalue]

I suppose it's a general discomfort with the idea that our understanding can only go so far.

It's healthy to ask, "But why does it work this way?". However, you also need to accept that the answer may be "We don't know", or that the truth of the matter might be that it just does. Insisting on a never ending chain of causation does not make it so. Of course, such a person must arbitrarily apply the latter to their god, to avoid it having to provide its own answer.

[Angrboda]

A slavish devotion to the Principle of Sufficient Reason plays a role in it.

[Homeless Nutter]

If you believe in an omnipotent, omnipresent god, science is impossible. There isn't a single measurement you can make, or an experiment you can conduct, that you could isolate from god's potential interference. You can test a water sample 999999 times, but you still can't be sure, that if you test it a millionth time it won't be wine, if god wills it, for whatever reason it might have, that you are not allowed to question.

All you can do with your life is bumble around the Earth, like a child in a dream-world, permanently confused and bewildered by even the most mundane events, begging invisible supernatural being for the Sun to rise again tomorrow, all the while being herded and fleeced by cynical charlatans and madmen, who claim to know god's will.

And anyway - why would you want to learn anything, when you can believe, that all you have to do is die and the entire magical reality will be revealed to you?

[Whateverist]

A slavish devotion to the Principle of Sufficient Reason plays a role in it.

Well put.  There is so much presumption in supposing that everything has a reason which we can grasp.  It almost seems as though they think these 'reasons' play the same enforcement role as the 'laws' or 'rules' of science.  Much simpler to question how complete one's grasp of the reasons may be.

[robvalue]

That's the key point yeah.

I find it highly probable there is all kinds of things going that we're not aware of, and will maybe never be aware of. We do our best with what we can assess. Making up stories about what may or may not be behind the scenes does not help understanding.