Newtonian Science, Miracles, and the Laws of Nature

Are Miracles Violations of the Laws of Nature?

Classical theism holds that God rules the world not only indirectly, by the natural laws established with creation, but through actions or direct interventions that interfere with natural processes and human actions. These direct interventions are usually called miracles. Modern Western philosophy, at least starting from Spinoza and Hume, has defined miracles as “violations of the laws of natur...

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Non - linear Science and the Laws of Nature

Simple examples such as the Bernouilli shift and the anharmonic lattice are studied. It is shown that instability as well as the thermodynamic limit lead to a new formulation of laws of nature in terms of probabilities (instead of trajectories or wave functions). © 1997 The Franklin Institute. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd

REVIEW : Marc Lange , Laws and Lawmakers : Science , Metaphysics , and the Laws of Nature

Leibniz and Kant on Miracles: Rationalism, Religion, and the Laws

Both Leibniz and Kant were heirs of such a tradition. But both were also explanatory rationalists about the empirical world: more committed than your average philosopher to its thoroughgoing intelligibility. (Leibniz was also an explanatory rationalist about the nonempirical, fundamental world; on that issue, given his commitments to freedom and noumenal ignorance, Kant famously demurred.) Thes...