Law of Nature, Observation and Research: An Integrated Approach Towards the Study of Natural Law Jurisprudence and Scientific Discovery

AbstractNature is linked to everything existing on the earth and the whole universe. It has its own lawsto govern all belongings, including land, waters, seas, plants, and animals. Nature likes tobalance its own creations, the air, the environment, and the space, and so on, through its ownlaws and denies human interventions in its affairs. Nature knows its own laws when and howto operate, destroy, and create with the passage of time, and what to preserve, keeping alive forits welfare, and to all its belongings. But as opposed to it, human beings, an intelligent andrational animal, not being satisfied with natural control, have always been engaged inmodifying the natural resources in diversified forms to their own uses, and claiming that theyhave been creating new things, inventing and discovering something extraordinary to theircredit. The real fact is that their power is limited in the sense that they can’t create, as everythingis fixed by nature itself. What they can do or have been doing is transform their creative ideasthrough observations and research on how nature acts and reacts using its resources, andmaking 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 inspireintelligent observers to carry out research by observing facts and happenings taking placebefore our eyes, which are apparently visible in and amongst the creations of nature. Itconcludes that observation is necessary, foundational, and epistemically prior, though notindependently sufficient, for the systematic formulation of natural law. This article examineswhether observation constitutes the foundational epistemic condition for understanding theLaw of Nature in both jurisprudence and scientific discovery.