The Term Scientific Law

What do we mean when we use the term “scientific law?”

Science is a study of the present universe. Scientists observe the material universe in its present state and describe what they see. From a large number of observations of some object or phenomenon, scientists observe that the universe behaves in a certain orderly way.

Scientific laws or laws of
“nature” are simply scientists’ descriptions of this orderly behavior… Ya gotta understand that science did not invent the way nature behaves; it simply describes it. Scientific laws are man’s formulations of his observations about the way the material universe behaves. Laws did not come into existence because of science exists; science exists because nature behaves in a predictable way.

Science, then is a description of the way nature behaves. We express these descriptions in generalizations known as scientific laws and these laws are understandable and can be communicated by rational minds…

A basic question arise: Why are the laws of science as they are??? Why, for example, does the speed of light have its particular value? Why isn’t
it three times these value or half or some other multiple? Out of the limitless possible values for the speed of light, why is it what it is?

Answer: Creation ex nihilo. The laws of science are as they are because God willed them to be that way. It’s simple, but profound. An act of the will, a choice, implies intelligence. It implies intelligence or mind behind the universe. As [E.H. Andrews] puts it, Without intelligence there is no true choosing but only a response to the rules of chance. But before even THOSE rules existed, a choice or distinction was made as to what they should be! The unavoidable conclusion is, therefore, that intelligence pre-existed the natural universe and the laws by which it functions. The only escape from this argument lies in a total agnosticism concerning the fundamental nature of scientific law.

The Creation Model has the stronger case. “In the beginning God….”