Reddit reviews The Divine Lawmaker: Lectures on Induction, Laws of Nature, and the Existence of God

I agree. There's an interesting chapter by John Heil in a volume called The Puzzle of Existence where he argues that the whole idea of "laws of nature" is a kind of theistic trap; monotheism was essential to the historical development of accounting for regularities in nature in terms of these transcendent eternal decrees, and you can't plausibly have these abstract laws without a lawgiver. He argues that atheists can get out of this, ironically, by returning to a neo-Aristotelian metaphysics that accounts for regularities in terms of the causal powers of substances themselves, a system commonly associated with Catholic philosophy. John Foster has argued that either way, you inevitably get back to the causal agency of God as the explanation of regularities, and if you want to read what somebody else has had to say after studying these questions, ask your library to get ahold of his The Divine Lawmaker: Lectures on Induction, Laws of Nature, and the Existence of God.