Q&A: What Is the Difference Between God and the Laws of Nature
What Is the Difference Between God and the Laws of Nature
Question
The main point of your argument in the physico-theological proof is that the laws of nature are special and require an explanation, and the only explanation is God. But how exactly does that solve the problem?? If anything, the opposite: it creates a bigger problem of who created something so complex that it can create things so complex. In other words, both are special, and God is even more special than the laws. So adding God to the equation in order to solve one complexity only adds more complexity to the equation and solves nothing. So the original question returns to its place: what is the explanation for God's complexity?
Answer
I explained this at length in the third lecture in The First Being. In short, unless you assume there is a first link that does not require a cause outside itself, you are driven into an infinite regress. That link is not necessarily complex, but in any case it is its own cause.
Discussion on Answer
As I wrote, that really doesn't matter. But in principle it is possible, because this creator is a being with consciousness and intention who conceives the product, not a machine that mechanically produces the product. Therefore, it does not necessarily need to contain complexity in order to create complexity. But as stated, that is not relevant to our issue.
The laws of nature are complex, but the thing that created them is less complex than they are? That sounds a little strange to me.