Law of Nature, Observation and Research: An Integrated Approach Towards the Study of Natural Law Jurisprudence and Scientific Discovery
Authors: Prof. (Dr.) Hiren Ch. Nath*, Dr. Parveen Islam**
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19847982
Page No: 46-67
Abstract
Nature is linked to everything existing on the earth and the whole universe. It has its own laws to govern all belongings, including land, waters, seas, plants, and animals. Nature likes to balance its own creations, the air, the environment, and the space, and so on, through its own laws and denies human interventions in its affairs. Nature knows its own laws when and how to operate, destroy, and create with the passage of time, and what to preserve, keeping alive for its welfare, and to all its belongings. But as opposed to it, human beings, an intelligent and rational animal, not being satisfied with natural control, have always been engaged in modifying the natural resources in diversified forms to their own uses, and claiming that they have been creating new things, inventing and discovering something extraordinary to their credit. The real fact is that their power is limited in the sense that they can’t create, as everything is fixed by nature itself. What they can do or have been doing is transform their creative ideas through observations and research on how nature acts and reacts using its resources, and making machines and instruments for the advancement of human civilization from time to time. In this research article, the researcher has focused on nature-based observations, which inspire intelligent observers to carry out research by observing facts and happenings taking place before our eyes, which are apparently visible in and amongst the creations of nature. It concludes that observation is necessary, foundational, and epistemically prior, though not independently sufficient, for the systematic formulation of natural law. This article examines whether observation constitutes the foundational epistemic condition for understanding the Law of Nature in both jurisprudence and scientific discovery.
