here I am attempting a thought experiment:
so genetic codes for all life… we are programed via
our coding which is part of the messenger RNA…
Genetic code is basically the rules by which information encoded
within genetic material is translated into proteins by living cells…
so by these genetic codes, we can understand that a person, a man,
cannot, cannot grow wings… because his code, the rules won’t allow him
to grow wings… wings like an angel wings for example…
these rules which are coded within our RNA is what makes us a certain height or
have brown hair or be a certain skin color… we cannot go outside of the rules coded
in us…
so we also have rules of the universe… a certain coding within the universe
and these codes are, in part, the 3 laws of thermodynamics, among other laws…
so the universe cannot go beyond these three laws… just like we cannot go beyond
our coding… so what happens if the universe does, somehow, go beyond one of the
three laws? the stability of the universe depends upon the three laws being obeyed…
because if they are not obeyed they the universe will suffer instability… and in any
system instability, the system will quite likely fail or collapse…
so if for some reason, the sun decides to disobey the basic rules, like for example,
he simply goes out of the path the sun has been on for, forever basically…
the sun just leaves the planets behind, those dam deadbeats the sun says,
and he takes off…what happens? well, the solar system fails or collapses…
it becomes chaos and anarchy within the solar system which in fact without the sun,
is no longer even a solar system…our system fails… for material objects in
the universe must obey the basic rules of whatever system they are in… and every
single system has rules, we may not know or understand the rules for any given system,
but every single system has rules and any attempt to violate those rules leads us
to a system collapse… every single system collapse if it doesn’t follow the rules…
which leads us to the question of how did those rules get set up?
depends on the system… for example, baseball, it rules were
created 150 years ago and as the game progressed, the rules changed…
it is a system with rules and it goes along its way as long as the rules are being
followed by everyone…
this leads us a couple of different ways… if IQ45 doesn’t follow the rules,
that has been set up, it creates chaos and possible collapse… the system,
any system must have rules of some sort… and by violating the rules, IQ45
threatens to damage and possible destroy the American system…
one might claim that Obama violated the rules, but the clear fact that
the system wasn’t in chaos or threaten with possible collapse suggest that
Obama in fact did follow the rules… today we see chaos every single day
with the GOP and with IQ45 with their brazen attempts to maintain their
power by violating the rules of the system…
you can stretch this idea in many different ways…
for example, in miracles, religious miracles… and here is where we
get the Hume connection because one of his attacks was upon this idea of
miracles…if the system, any system has rules and the rules must be followed
or we get chaos and possible collapse…now miracles violate the rules,
scientific rules like the 3 laws of thermodynamics… let us take for example,
the bible has the sun stopping over the battle… uh,… Joshua 10, NIV…
where the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down for about
a full day…we have our three laws of thermodynamics… the law of inertia is
the first law… “an object in motion… the sun…continues in motion with the same
speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force”
but the sun and the solar system is part of a much larger system, we
are surrounded by many stars and solar systems… you cannot stop one
and expect the whole surrounding area not to be disturbed or effected…
the stopping of the sun would create widespread interference and an action
that is quite a bit further beyond just the earth or sun…
let us say, you claim just the earth was stopped… now we have real
problems… if the earth stopped, what would happen?
think of a car with passengers… the car hits a brick wall and stops…
but the people and material inside the car is still moving… you have
quite a mess and dead people on your hands… stop the earth and
you still have everyone and everything on earth still moving…we would
suffer the same fate as the passengers in the car…we would tumble
and fly into the direction that the earth was spinning… and yet we have no
record of any such thing and believe me, it would leave quite a mark on
planet earth… think of all that water that was still moving on a stopped planet…
the planet may have stopped but the water didn’t stop and it will keep on going…
so in two ways you cannot have the miracle of Joshua…and we can
continue this in terms of any miracle you may present me… the laws of
the systems, regardless of the system cannot be violated without severe
consequences to the system, chaos and possible collapse of the system…
so I believe that Hume was right, we cannot have miracles such as given
in the bible…
Kropotkin