At every turn, the philosopher concludes, there are laws of nature, and the laws always apply to some physical "stuff" (particles, fields, whatever) that is governed by the laws.
Of course not: God is supposed to be able to transcend the laws of nature, and the laws of nature are defeasible when it comes to describing what actually did happen (since God could have intervened).
But the general's mission-oriented perspective does not allow for the possibility that the war he has been asked to wage is bound to fail because it is fundamentally at odds with human nature and the laws of economics.
If Kant has already established that on the basis of our awareness of our obligations under the moral law we can be confident that we have free will and that all of the laws of nature are at least consistent with our realization of the ends commanded by the moral law, what more needs to be done in order to throw a bridge between the theoretical cognition of nature and the laws of freedom?
The task of physics is to investigate the fundamental properties of the elementary constituents of nature and the laws that characterize them, whilst the task of the special sciences is to elucidate the properties had by complex material substances and the laws governing their characteristic behavior and interactions.
I believe that when one breaks the laws of nature and the laws of moral decency -- and I do believe homosexuality is moral perversion -- when we go against nature -- and God, of course, is the creator of nature -- we therefore pay the prices for that.
Fueled by the desire to know, it drives systematic collection of data, the facts needed to formulate a unified concept of nature and the laws that govern it (6).
In his letter, he said that he had not seen his actions as directed against the United States, but now he recognized that they were "criminal in nature and against the law.
As we have seen, in process theism, God is responsible for the laws of nature and these laws determine the limits of non-divine creativity.
