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Can laws come by chance?

Therefore, can laws of physics, laws of chemistry, and laws of biology come by chance?

If it is a LAW, how can a LAW come by chance?

2007-11-26 11:24:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

Law is the way things work.

in our world, things work because something must happen first.

nature works because some creatures must eat some creatures first. something, somewhere, someone must do something, in order for a law to come to pass.

2007-11-26 11:30:25 · update #1

yes, chaos. someone must have created chaos somewhere.

2007-11-26 11:41:21 · update #2

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Hi there sl.blackacre is doing a pretty good job.Judging by your q and a's,I'm not sure you are going to like the responses,but here it goes.The first thing you have to get out of your head is that chance thing.It's really a straw man that theologians use to make it look like natural answers are on shaky ground.Chance is only one part of a much larger equation.Remember,a lot of the selective mechanisms are not just random or chance at all.The way the universe operates violates no laws of physics at all.Laws are mathematical models that are observational descriptions and they aren't really that much like a law against using cell phones while driving.People may use statistics but it's not quite the same as describing a chemical or physics law.In physics,properties of physical space time laws are called symmetries.Note-At no point in time do we need an outside explanation,all of these things are just acting and reacting upon each other.All laws arise easily from natural explanations.Some things do whats known as a spontaneous symmetry break.As the universe started cooling down and expanding,things like gravity and electromagnetism were no longer in a state of balance.They were able to begin to act on things separately and differently.Hopefully that gives you a basic idea.I'll try to check back at about 8:45 est if you're interested in more.(sorry at work,have testing to do)

2007-11-26 12:11:56 · answer #1 · answered by vibratorrepairman 3 · 1 0

Because the term "law" has nothing to do with how the law came to pass.

And to the best of my knowledge, laws such as you describe define parameters or functions, not end results.

Re additional details:
but the law merely describes the function, or parameter within which something works. It does not spring into action in response to the first time something chances to begin happening. Gravity, for example, is there regardless of whether I drop a penny. If you are talking on a Universal scale, I suggest you refer the question to the physics Q & A site.

Re: Roman S (below):
Which laws, then, controled development of your "creator" figure? Following your logic that something more complex must have developed such a law, then that something must have been the result of even more complex creation or laws inherently within the system. You can't have it both ways, or just change the rules by claiming a supreme being who doesn't require a more supreme being...

Re more additional details:
What do you mean someone must have created chaos. Where on Earth did you get that idea: all you are doing is setting up the question to try to create a platform for a God or Gods to become necessary. Why not try looking at it logically without presupposing any "poofable" omnipotent creatures?

2007-11-26 11:28:23 · answer #2 · answered by Blackacre 7 · 3 0

As Dr. Jonathan Sarfati reported, “Theories that the Universe is a quantum fluctuation could favor to presuppose that there advance into some element to type—their ‘quantum vacuum’ is countless count number-antimatter means—no longer ‘no longer something.’” (If God Created The Universe, Then Who Created God?). you note, a quantum container or quantum vacuum isn’t “no longer something”—it truly is a few element in opt for of rationalization; you'll favor to describe the existence of the quantum container. Physicist Dr. James McCaughan commenting on a colleague’s e book reported, “there is not any physics of techniques the universe were given right here into existence, no tunnelling from no longer something; it keeps to be a secret. the price some physicists are prepared to pay to no longer settle for this reality is, on the data presented, psychological vandalism” (Of Paul Davies and the ideas of God). They accuse us of being unscientific, yet their view is definitely: no longer something created a singularity from no longer something and it speeded up. I’m sorry, yet “no longer something” violates the perception of causality. If there had ever been a time even as certainly no longer something existed, then there could be no longer something now, by reality it consistently is actual that no longer something produces no longer something (ex nihilo nehil better healthful).

2016-10-25 02:46:02 · answer #3 · answered by koroly 4 · 0 0

nope, laws come from chaos

2007-11-26 11:38:03 · answer #4 · answered by Laff -Hugs 4all- 5 · 0 0

laws did not happen by mear chance, absolutly not without a doubt, the intelligent creator made them

2007-11-26 11:32:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 3

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