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How can anyone say that this universe was designed for Humanity?

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06-12-2003 7:05 PM 		Reply to: Message 37 by stevo3890
06-12-2003 5:04 PM

I would say that it is a mistake to reify natural laws or to assume that they truly govern anything.
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Natural laws are descriptive, not prescriptive. They describe the behaviour of natural entities and can only be said to exist in any sense so long as the entities they describe exist.
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