LAWS OF LIFE

Newton's laws of motion are three physical laws that, together, laid the foundation for classical
mechanics. They describe the relationship between a body and the forces acting upon it, and
its motion in response to those forces. They have been expressed in several different ways, over
nearly three centuries,[1] and can be summarised as follows.

First law: When viewed in an inertial reference frame, an object either remains at rest or
continues to move at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by a net force.[2][3]
Second In an inertial refere
law: nce frame, the vector sum of the forces F on an object is equal to the
constant mass m of that object multiplied by the acceleration vector a of the
object: F = ma.
Third law: When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously
exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body.

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The force of gravity is the force exerted by the gravitational field of a massive object on

any body within the vicinity of its surface. This force is dependent on three factors: the mass
of the massive object, the mass of the smaller body, and the separation between the two,
measured between their geometrical centers.
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Any object, wholly or partially immersed in a fluid, is buoyed up by a force equal to

the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. Practically,
the Archimedes' principleallows the buoyancy of an object partially or fully
immersed in a liquid to be calculated. The downward force on the object is simply its
weight.
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Introduction

The first answer is that God exists and his law, including his laws pertaining to the
creation of nations, governments and constitutions, are supreme, right and absolute.

As one might expect, the Bible is fairly clear on the subject of the supremacy of
God and his law. It indicates that there is no God except the Lord God. 1 God is
the God of creation and He is the Creator of all things visible and invisible. 2 God
impressed his laws upon creation and he governs its operation accordingly. 3 God
gave his law so that people would seek after God and know what God requires
of every person.4 Of course, the laws of God are right, perfect, and eternal. 5 They
apply over the entire globe and are written in God’s creation because God is the
Creator of all the earth.6These rules also apply to all people and are written
within each man, woman and child because God is the Creator of all
people.7 God also reiterated the basic elements of his rules of right and wrong in
the Bible.8
The implications of this situation are straightforward. Since God created all
things, he also has the right to rule them according to his laws. 9 He rules the
nations according to his laws. 10 His laws rule the nations irrespective of whether
a given nation believes in God or recognizes his laws. 11 This does not mean that
the nations are perfect nor does it mean that people who do not worship God
cannot rule.12 Nor does it mean that God will judge lawbreakers according to our
timetables of justice.
It does mean, however, that God will not let a corrupt government rule
forever.13 God judges justly on the earth and punishes lawless leaders and
nations.14 Nations which forget God may completely perish. 15 Nations which
honor God and try to follow his laws, however, can expect to receive his care and
protection.16

The supremacy of God’s law was generally recognized in the English common
law. Sir William Blackstone, the preeminent English legal authority widely
followed by the American founders, recognized the binding legal nature of the
law of God as understood in its basic principles. Blackstone maintained that
English law (and therefore, American law) had its roots in the laws of God.

Blackstone recognized that “law, in its most general and comprehensive sense,
signifies a rule of action.” He identified the essential legalrelationship that exists
between God and his creation by observing, “Man, considered as a creature,
must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a
dependent being.”20 God was acknowledged as the lawgiver and therefore the
one who laid down certain immutable rules of action, that is, of right and wrong
conduct.
Recognizing the relevance of the creation and the Bible, Blackstone noted that
“[u]pon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation,
depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to
contradict these.”21 In other words, the law of God whether written in God’s
creation (nature) or in the Bible (revelation), spoke with a unified voice.
Moreover, this law is absolute: any law of man to the contrary is of no effect.

Various individuals, peoples, and governments have interpreted God’s laws

differently at different times.22 The framers of the American system of
government, however, were in one accord in “presuppos[ing] the existence of a
God, the moral ruler of the universe, and a rule of right and wrong, of just and
unjust, binding upon man, preceding all institutions of human society and
government.”23 In other words, the framers recognized that God laid down rules
that governed the universe and nations and that these laws could be sufficiently
understood because they are communicated by a God who wants people to
know them.24 They presupposed a God who is not silent.

President John Quincy Adams, writing in 1839, looked back at the founding
period and recognized the true meaning of the Declaration’s reliance on the
“Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” He observed that the American people’s
“charter was the Declaration of Independence. Their rights, the natural rights of
mankind. Their government, such as should be instituted by the people, under
the solemn mutual pledges of perpetual union, founded on the self-evident
truths proclaimed in the Declaration.”25

The Declaration of Independence is a document with its roots in the law of God.
Perhaps the best place to begin understanding how the Declaration serves in
this capacity is to discern how the framers understood and applied its principles
to the creation and formation of civil government. If we can understand how
they took the Declaration’s principles and applied them to the formation of
constitutions, then we too should be able to apply those same principles to any
other legal difficulties that our constitutional governments may face.

The first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence sets the stage for the
American revolution and its indispensable reliance on the laws of God, the
Creator.26 It declares:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have connected them with one another, and
to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to
which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitles them, a decent respect to
the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which
impel them to the separation.

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by Kerry L Morgan

The Laws of Nature and of Natures God.

Natural laws are hierarchical in nature; secondary laws of nature are based on
primary laws of nature, which have to be just right in order for our universe to
be possible. But, where did these laws come from, and why do they exist? If
the universe were merely the accidental by-product of a big bang, then why
should it obey orderly principles—or any principles at all for that matter? Such
laws are consistent with biblical creation. Natural laws exist because the
universe has a Creator God who is logical and has imposed order on His
universe (Genesis 1:1).
The Word of God
Everything in the universe, every plant and animal, every rock, every particle
of matter or light wave, is bound by laws which it has no choice but to obey.
The Bible tells us that there are laws of nature—“ordinances of heaven and
earth” (Jeremiah 33:25). These laws describe the way God normally
accomplishes His will in the universe.
God’s logic is built into the universe, and so the universe is not haphazard or
arbitrary. It obeys laws of chemistry that are logically derived from the laws of
physics, many of which can be logically derived from other laws of physics
and laws of mathematics. The most fundamental laws of nature exist only
because God wills them to; they are the logical, orderly way that the Lord
upholds and sustains the universe He has created. The atheist is unable to
account for the logical, orderly state of the universe. Why should the universe
obey laws if there is no law-giver? But laws of nature are perfectly consistent
with biblical creation. In fact, the Bible is the foundation for natural laws.

The Law of Life (Biogenesis)

There is one well-known law of life: the law of biogenesis. This law states
simply that life always comes from life. This is what observational science tells
us: organisms reproduce other organisms after their own kind. Historically,
Louis Pasteur disproved one alleged case of spontaneous generation; he
showed that life comes from previous life. Since then, we have seen that this
law is universal—with no known exceptions. This is, of course, exactly what
we would expect from the Bible. According to Genesis 1, God supernaturally
created the first diverse kinds of life on earth and made them to reproduce
after their kind. Notice that molecules-to-man evolution violates the law of
biogenesis. Evolutionists believe that life (at least once) spontaneously formed
from nonliving chemicals. But this is inconsistent with the law of biogenesis.
Real science confirms the Bible.
EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE, EVERY PLANT
AND ANIMAL, EVERY ROCK, EVERY PARTICLE OF
MATTER OR LIGHT WAVE, IS BOUND BY LAWS
WHICH IT HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO OBEY.
The Laws of Chemistry
Life requires a specific chemistry. Our bodies are powered by chemical
reactions and depend on the laws of chemistry operating in a uniform fashion.
Even the information that makes up any living being is stored on a long
molecule called DNA. Life as we know it would not be possible if the laws of
chemistry were different. God created the laws of chemistry in just the right
way so that life would be possible.

The laws of chemistry give different properties to the various elements (each
made of one type of atom) and compounds (made up of two or more types of
atoms that are bonded together) in the universe. For example, when given
sufficient activation energy, the lightest element (hydrogen) will react with
oxygen to form water. Water itself has some interesting properties, such as
the ability to hold an unusually large amount of heat energy. When frozen,
water forms crystals with six-sided symmetry (which is why snowflakes are
generally six-sided). Contrast this with salt (sodium chloride) crystals, which
tend to form cubes. It is the six-fold symmetry of water ice that causes “holes”
in its crystal, making it less dense than its own liquid. That’s why ice floats in
water (whereas essentially all other frozen compounds sink in their own
liquid).

The properties of elements and compounds are not arbitrary. In fact, the
elements can be logically organized into a periodic table based on their
physical properties. Substances in the same column on the table tend to have
similar properties. This follows because elements in a vertical column have
the same outer electron structures. These outermost electrons determine the
physical characteristics of the atom. The periodic table did not happen by
chance. Atoms and molecules have their various properties because their
electrons are bound by the laws of quantum physics. In other words,
chemistry is based on physics. If the laws of quantum physics were just a bit
different, atoms might not even be possible. God designed the laws of physics
just right so that the laws of chemistry would come out the way He wanted
them to.
The Laws of Planetary Motion
The creation scientist Johannes Kepler discovered that the planets in our solar
system obey three laws of nature. He found that planets orbit in ellipses (not
perfect circles as had been previously thought) with the sun at one focus of
the ellipse; thus a given planet is sometimes closer to the sun than at other
times. Kepler also found that planets sweep out equal areas in equal times—
in other words, planets speed up as they get closer to the sun within their
orbit. And third, Kepler found the exact mathematical relationship between a
planet’s distance from the sun (a) and its orbital period (p); planets that are
farther from the sun take much longer to orbit than planets that are closer
(expressed as p2=a3). Kepler’s laws also apply to the orbits of moons around a
given planet.1
As with the laws of chemistry, these laws of planetary motion are not
fundamental. Rather, they are the logical derivation of other laws of nature. In
fact, it was another creation scientist (Sir Isaac Newton) who discovered that
Kepler’s laws could be derived mathematically from certain laws of physics—
specifically, the laws of gravity and motion (which Newton himself formulated).

The Laws of Physics

The field of physics describes the behavior of the universe at its most
fundamental level. There are many different laws of physics. They describe
the way the universe operates today. Some laws of physics describe how light
propagates, how energy is transported, how gravity operates, how mass
moves through space, and many other phenomena. The laws of physics are
usually mathematical in nature; some laws of physics can be described with a
concise formula, such as E=mc2. The simple formula F=ma shows how an
object with mass (m) will accelerate (a) when a net force (F) is applied to it. It
is amazing that every object in the universe consistently obeys these rules.
There is a hierarchy in physics: some laws of physics can be derived from
other laws of physics. For example, Einstein’s famous formula E=mc2 can be
derived from the principles and equations of special relativity. Conversely,
there are many laws of physics that cannot be derived from other laws of
physics; many of these are suspected to be derivative principles, but scientists
have not yet deduced their derivation.
And some laws of physics may be truly fundamental (not based on other
laws); they exist only because God wills them to. In fact, this must be the case
for at least one law of physics (and perhaps several)—the most fundamental.
(Logically, this is because if the most fundamental law were based on some
other law, it would not be the most fundamental law.)

The laws of physics (along with their associated constants) are fine-tuned in just the
right way so that life, particularly human life, is possible. This fact is called the
“anthropic principle.”1
1
Anthropic comes from the Greek word for man, anthropos.
The Laws of Mathematics
Notice that the laws of physics are highly mathematical in nature. They would
not work if there were not also laws of mathematics. Mathematical laws and
principles include the rules of addition, the transitive property, the
commutative properties of addition and multiplication, the binomial theorem,
and many others. Like the laws of physics, some laws and properties of
mathematics can be derived from other mathematical principles. But unlike the
laws of physics, the laws of mathematics are abstract; they are not “attached”
to any specific part of the universe. It is possible to imagine a universe where
the laws of physics are different, but it is difficult to imagine a (consistent)
universe where the laws of mathematics are different.2
The laws of mathematics are an example of a “transcendent truth.” They must
be true regardless of what kind of universe God created. This may be because
God’s nature is logical and mathematical; thus, any universe He chose to
create would necessarily be mathematical in nature. The secular naturalist
cannot account for the laws of mathematics. Certainly he would believe in
mathematics and would use mathematics, but he is unable to account for the
existence of mathematics within a naturalistic framework since mathematics is
not a part of the physical universe. However, the Christian understands that
there is a God beyond the universe and that mathematics reflects the thoughts
of the Lord. Understanding math is, in a sense, “thinking God’s thoughts after
Him”3 (though in a limited, finite way, of course).
Some have supposed that mathematics is a human invention. It is said that if
human history had been different, an entirely different form of math would
have been constructed—one with alternate laws, theorems, axioms, etc. But
such thinking is not consistent. Are we to believe that the universe did not
obey mathematical laws before people discovered them? Did the planets orbit
differently before Kepler discovered that p2=a3? Clearly, mathematical laws are
something that human beings have discovered, not invented. The only thing
that might have been different (had human history taken a different course) is
the notation—the way in which we choose to express mathematical truths
through symbols. But these truths exist regardless of how they are expressed.
Mathematics could rightly be called the “language of creation.”
The Laws of Logic
All the laws of nature, from physics and chemistry to the law of biogenesis,
depend on the laws of logic. Like mathematics, the laws of logic are
transcendent truths. We cannot imagine that the laws of logic could be
anything different from what they are. Take the law of noncontradiction for
example. This law states that you cannot have both “A” and “not A” at the
same time and in the same relationship. Without the laws of logic, reasoning
would be impossible. But where do the laws of logic come from?

The atheist cannot account for the laws of logic, even though he or she must
accept that they exist in order to do any rational thinking. But according to the
Bible, God is logical. Indeed, the law of noncontradiction reflects God’s nature;
God cannot lie (Numbers 23:19) or be tempted with evil (James 1:13) since
these things contradict His perfect nature. Since we have been made in God’s
image, we instinctively know the laws of logic. We are able to reason logically
(though because of finite minds and sin we don’t always think entirely
logically).
The Uniformity of Nature
The laws of nature are uniform. They do not (arbitrarily) change, and they
apply throughout the whole cosmos. The laws of nature apply in the future just
as they have applied in the past; this is one of the most basic assumptions in
all of science. Without this assumption, science would be impossible. If the
laws of nature suddenly and arbitrarily changed tomorrow, then past
experimental results would tell us nothing about the future. Why is it that we
can depend on the laws of nature to apply consistently throughout time? The
secular scientists cannot justify this important assumption. But the Christian
can because the Bible gives us the answer. God is Lord over all creation and
sustains the universe in a consistent and logical way. God does not change,
and so He upholds the universe in a consistent, uniform way throughout time
(Jeremiah 33:25).
Conclusion
We have seen that the laws of nature depend on other laws of nature, which
ultimately depend on God’s will. Thus, God created the laws of physics in just
the right way so that the laws of chemistry would be correct, so that life can
exist. It is doubtful that any human would have been able to solve such a
complex puzzle. Yet, the Lord has done so. The atheist cannot account for
these laws of nature (even though he agrees that they must exist), for such
laws are inconsistent with naturalism. Yet, they are perfectly consistent with
the Bible. We expect the universe to be organized in a logical, orderly fashion
and to obey uniform laws because the universe was created by the power of
God.

God & Natural Law

by Dr. Jason Lisle on August 28, 2006
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