Q&A: Uniformity of Nature God
Uniformity of Nature God
Question
Hello Rabbi,
What does the Rabbi think about the argument that if nature is God,
then the laws of nature are included within it (immanent).
And therefore they are derived from nature. If so, who ensured that in different and distant places nature would operate according to the same law as elsewhere?
One must say that the source of the law is external to nature: God.
What does the Rabbi think about this argument?
Answer
Before I see an argument here, a lot more work is needed. Even the individual sentences here are phrased vaguely and carelessly.
The argument that nature is God is pantheism, about which I already wrote here that it is entirely equivalent to atheism (there is no God, but they call nature “God.” Mere semantics). Are the laws of nature entities, or descriptions of how things behave? What does it mean that they are “included” in it? What does it mean that they are “derived” from nature? They are included in it.
Where did this question suddenly come from about the laws operating in the same way in different places? What is the problem with that? Why does someone need to supervise it? And what does all this have to do with the sentences written at the beginning?
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