One can say that these are all to be
explained by natural law or by chance or by evolution, and nothing else lies behind them.
Does it mean that we worship an unjust God who, as Romans 1:19 - 20 teaches, punishes people for their failure to
abide by natural law, a law St. Paul says they can not fail to recognize through the manifest order in the nature world?
All too commonly today supernaturalism means splitting the universe in two — on one side nature,
run by natural laws, on the other side the supernatural that ever and again breaks into the natural, disturbs its regular procedures, and suspends its laws.
The physical realm is
bound by natural laws (i.e. gravity) and there's no good reason to abandon the idea that the metaphysical realm is no different.
Every known element of the theory of evolution is clearly void of any hint of transcendence as it is self
limiting by the natural laws used to measure and falsify the various components.
This is not to say that our legislators should not be
guided by natural law, teleology, and human flourishing.
The majority of the schools — nearly six in ten — try to combine the view of a material universe
driven by natural laws with a God who, in principle, can miraculously intervene.
From Him, life streamed out in the Beginning, and all was
ordered by natural law unto His Coming, the season of Advent, we next celebrate.
You can argue against it with all your might, but a Supreme God that is Nature, what we know of it and what we don't, controls
everything by NATURAL Law... and don't confuse that with just what humans understand of natural law.
NAIA cherishes the human - animal bond, believing that people and animals are bound
together by natural law in an ancient relationship that benefits both.
There is a natural harmony of times and seasons, governed
by natural law; that is to say, by a successive harmony which turns on, and turns off periods of desire in terms of proper times and seasons.
You see, there's two arguments here — the universe abides
by natural laws and rules and is governed by relations, or the universe abides by natural laws and rules and is governed by relations which were created by an omnipotent being.
Scientists are always looking for ways to prove that it came into being
by natural laws but why?
The underlying assumption here is that an event can be explained either
by natural laws or by reference to God.
Further, since the heavens, too, are just another created thing (Gen 1:1), the heavens, too, must be governed
by natural laws.
As realm after realm was taken over
by natural law, for many people God was escorted to the frontiers of the universe and bowed out.
Their first fight, in January 1961, should
by natural law have beentheir last.