Laws or wills?

The following are excerpts from my latest post at FCA. Go there to see the unusually lengthy combox thread:
Is there any law that dictates what the most basic laws of physics are? Are the laws of the universe self-ratifying, or are they in need of some grounding principle to account for their exact correlations?
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“And God saw that it was ‘good’…”

Anyone passingly familiar with philosophy over the last, say, millennium, should be comfortable with the various uses of inverted commas, indirect quotations, ironic scare quotes, and the like. Although I assume any reader of this blog is familiar with such technicalities, I would like to preface this post with some biographical background about such devices, [...]