Order in nature( part 2)

Order in Nature (part 2)

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The second postulate is that of the 

Uniformity of nature. Nature is uniform and orderly. Not only do things and events have causes but the same causes are under similar conditions  which produces same 3ffect. The properties of matter are invariable and what has happened once will happen again when conditions are the same. If nature were erratic and inconsistent, science and even the management of life would be impossible, for there would be no laws to discover or guide us and everything would be enveloped in a cloud of uncertainity. Science is based on these fundamental assumptions and its success is positive proof of their soundness.

Natural phenomena are not arbitary they follow definite laws and systems which are same everywhere, at all times and for everyone.unlike religion, science builds on its heritage of knowledge instead of trying to destroy it. It amplifies, elaborates and extends earlier knowledge. The acquistions of science are continuing and cumulative. Cross fertilisation of diffeent branches of knowledge makes useful contributions to the advancement of science. Since thoroughly verified facts cannot contradict each other, it is necessary to coordinate and integrate inconsistent facts into a single higher theory which includes, explains and reconciles them all.
Man made laws vary from one country to another and even within the same country they are liable to change from time to time. Keep to the left, says the Indian law, keep to the right, says the American. Punishment for violation of human laws is not automatic but subject to detection, prosecution and conviction. Only a strong and honest law enforcement machinery can enforce these laws.

"The natural laws are universal and inexorable. In no country can they be disobeyed without penalty. Nor do they ever warn the transgressor; the punishment is as silent as the origin of the universe and will last to its end. The speed of light will never change. Before the laws of gravity all men are equal. We will never be able, of our own accord, to walk on water or fly in the air".

Before the quest for truth could proceed very far, it had to contend with serious psychological and religious barriers like superstitions, blind faith, the word of authority, tradition and scripture. Giordano brono was burnt alive while Kepler , Galileo and many others were persecuted for their heretical views.
Though the last-pitched battle between science and theology was fought between T.H Huxley and Bishop Wilberfore a hundred years ago, some religions are still very anxious to insulate themselves against science lest it should violate their sanctity, infallibility and uniqueness.
Freed from these inhibitions science is now able to pursue it's search for truth with zeal and vigour.

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The Order In Nature (part 1)

The Order In Nature (part 1)

Though nature is subtle and mysterious, it is not erratic or capricious. In vast areas of nature, which science has investigated, law and order, method and system, regularity and consistency are found to prevail. The book of nature is written in hieroglyphics, which, however, can be deciphered. The laws of nature can be discovered and the forces of nature can be harnessed for the benefit of mankind. Nature cannot be overpowered by force or moved by supplications. But, its favours can be won by obeying its laws. All this hard but rewarding work of studying and handling nature comes within the sphere of science.

Science is a quest for truth. It is a search for constant relations between one fact and another, between a cause and its effect, between two phenomena which are apparently unrelated.

It presupposes that such constant relationships do exist and can be discovered; that what has happened once will happen again when the circumstances are similar; that things repeat in nature according to fixed laws.

For centuries science made little progress because of the belief that the universe is governed in every detail by divine , which is unknowable and variable and against which human intelligence and effort are of no avail. Later on when it was realised that gods, angels and spirits do not interfere in the functioning of nature, one major obstacle to the systematic study of nature was removed and two basic postulates of science emerged.

The first postulate is that events do not take place without a preceding cause, that something cannot come out of nothing. Whatever it may be, an eclipse,a rainbow, a strange animal, a coin, a pen, a thought or a feeling, does not come from nothing but must have a cause. It may be easy or difficult to correlate cause and effect, but neither can exist without the other. 

The universe is not running haphazardly but according to the immutable law of cause and effect, which follow each other in an unending succession. Whatever happens in the world is the inevitable result of sometthing that preceded , it and the inevitable cause of something that follows.

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Reality of everything

The reality of everything

Has anybody ever thought that what is this universe , we are living in, what is it all made of, who has created it and why does it exists at all, these are some toughest things to answer about reality, and what we could observe, you could relate this with the famous omnipotence paradox, which asks about existence of god , but different religions have different views about this , what i beleive that everything is a cycle which continiues upto endlessness, and restarts again, which prpbably means that big bang occurs again and again .

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