Are the laws of nature laws given by some supposed intelligent being, worshiped by the heathen of old, and by the atheists of modern times, under that name?
Or do they signify the orderly and regular sequence of cause and effect, which is so manifest in the course of all events?
If, as atheists say, the latter, this is the very thing we want them to account for.

How came the world to be under law without a lawgiver?
Where there is law, there must be design.

Chance is utterly inconsistent with the idea of law.

Where there is design there must, of necessity, be a designer.

Matter in any shape, stones or lightnings, mud or magnets, can not think, contrive, design, give law to itself, or to any thing else, much less bring itself into existence.