Mother Nature: A Cruel and Irrational Mistress

Many of the philosophers we have studied in class have believed that nature is rational and understandable by human reason. On the surface, modern science appears to support the idea. However, the opposite is true. Science has only shown us how irrational nature can be. Reality is governed by natural laws that refuse to be objectively proven, and defy all attempts to explain their cause.

Gravity is a perfect example of how nature taunts us with its seemingly arbitrary rules. Gravity is what causes a dropped object to fall to the ground, but why does that object fall? There's the idea that matter-attracts-matter, but why should matter be feel the need to come together? Gravity is merely a name of an observed force and nothing else. No one can prove the existence of gravity by itself. Nature's fickleness is revealed by gravity's narrow field of applicability. Why should the theory of gravity work on the everyday scale, but not on the galactic scale? Physicists were forced to make up the concept of dark matter just to explain how our galaxy exists in its current state. The idea of dark matter is that there exists some kind of 'invisible' matter that cannot be observed in any way, but is able to affect reality with its gravitational pull.

If nature was truly rational, why would it taunt us with natural laws that can only be understood to a point? Why should our lives be based around physical rules that nature feels should only apply some of the time? Why should existence be built in such a way that the reasons and causes of things be forever refused to us? Nature seems to cruelly mock us by only allowing to know that rules exist, but never why they exist. An indignity that we do not deserve.