But one problem is that scientific activity presumes that the material world is organized according to unchanging laws, while biblical fundamentalism presumes that those laws are themselves subject to disruption and miracle.

That is why they think you are crazy, because they believe that the customs of their tribe are the laws of nature, immutable and unchanging.

In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable.

Mauss had suggested that by an exhaustive process of observation and recording, it might be possible to establish unchanging laws of human behaviour.

And the evil fate that makes evil men appear to flourish smiled upon Mark Kingman, while all that Channing had to fight back with was his faith in the unchanging physical laws of science.

Once the computer-simulated populace of Italy realized what Doon's character, the dictator, was doing, the unchanging laws of interaction between government and governed would oust him.

Communicating, indirectly, by common knowledge of the unchanging laws of physics, the universal law of mediocrity, Kirk's Enterprise gently released her hold on the Ian Shelton.

Not human whims but the unchanging laws of nature draw the line between what is physically possible and what is not - no political act, no social movement can change the law of gravity one whit.

As long as you submit to its alleged requirements and surrender before the so-called unchanging laws of the market, you will not resolve any problems.

The Shakespearite conducts his assuming upon a definite principle, an unchanging and immutable law: which is: 2 and 8 and 7 and 14, added together, make 165.