A letter to the New York Times

A letter to the New York Times

(Unpublished):



Re: Laws of Nature, Source Unknown, 12/18/07. I don’t think that the origin of our laws-of- nature are entirely inexplicable when we apply some logic. For instance, let’s ask the question-- Which is more reasonable?



1. One intelligent, unexplainable Creator who created and holds all things together, or
2. Many disconnected, unexplainable, “polytheistic,” unintelligent laws, which do the same omnipotent work of holding the universe together, somehow each exercising its sovereignty in tandem with the others?



True science understandably abhors the inelegance of the latter and has struggled under Einstein’s mantle to find unity, a common principle or cause to tie everything together. We find this beauty in Monotheism, the heart and essence of science.



I like what the cosmologist Paul Davies said about the “enlightenment’s” verdict eliminating God:



“Then God got killed off and the laws just free-floated in a conceptual vacuum but retained their theological properties.”



When modernity “killed off” God, it subsequently had to make gods out of what they hadn’t killed. What do these free-floating laws-of-nature explain? Little! These deities have been given divine, unquestioned, explanatory status, while their Maker has been stuffed into a dark closet. Perhaps we need to air out the closet!

Daniel Mann