Season 3 Podcast 254 “The Nature of Law”

Season 3 Podcast 254 “The Nature of Law”In this podcast, I assert five assumptions without which creation is not possible. Assumption One.  Certain things must self-exist, having neither beginning nor end, requiring no explanation.  Among those are intelligence (meaning life or consciousness), matter, energy, and potential. Matter and energy self-exist. And chaos self exists, but laws do not.  The paradox is that laws cannot be arbitrary, or they would not be laws, but they still must be organized from self-existing matter and energy.  Nature cannot be organized on any other principle than upon the one which we call the laws of nature and still sustain mortal life.  In other words, fish must tend to swim upstream, and ice must expand as water freezes.  Since the earth was created for mortal man, the laws of earth were organized by necessity.  The same is true for what scientists call ‘The Goldilocks Zone’ in which everything is in place to sustain mortal life, and if even one phenomenon were out of place, life on earth could not be sustained—the tilt of the earth, the rotation of the earth, the revolution of earth around the sun, the magnetic pole, the constants, the molten center, the distance from the sun, etc.  There is no such thing as an accidental universe.  Purpose came first, and the organization of complete sets of laws came second.  Without Christ there would be no natural laws. Laws are what they are through intelligent design. All laws of our world work together with precision tailored to fulfil the purposes of God. If laws appear perfect, it is because God is perfect. His kingdom represents perfect order. He doesn’t make mistakes. He doesn’t experiment.  He doesn’t deal with uncertainty in any form. Though I believe in evolution as manifest in nature, that rules out the theory of evolution as creator. Consider life on other planets. Who can limit God? One thing is certain. If there is life like ours on other planets, you will find the same set of laws there as you find here. The laws will be the same because the purposes of God, who never varies, are the same.  Chance plays no part in God’s creations.  Assumption Two: Something cannot come from nothing.All scientific inquiry must begin with that immutable premise; otherwise, we live in a fairyland where anything is possible, even elves, trolls, witches, unicorns, fairies, etc.  We must assume that matter and energy self-exist, that intelligence self-exists, that consciousness and life self-exist.  In other words, that which we call life must have always existed or there is no explanation for its existence, even the existence of God.  For life to create itself is for something to come from nothing. The principle that something can come from nothing annihilates the very idea of science, the very fabric of science, the very reason for science to exist, for that which can come from nothing can go back to nothing, even law. If something could come from nothing, then science is merely a temporary phenomenon that explains the appearance of reality and the illusion of law. One can only assume that if life self exists that intelligence self exists. That is the only explanation for the existence of God and for the existence of all humans whose spiritual bodies and physical bodies are created by God in the image and likeness of God. Nothing can reach beyond its potential or something can come from nothing. God is God because he was a self-existing intelligence with the potential to become God. All children of God are intelligences with the potential to become Gods.  That is what separates man from animals. Through organization of laws, God, the Father of us all, set us as his children upon a path of eternal progression, a path that we may, having agency, accept or reject.