Science and Theology

its information capacity was so restricted that the consequences would have been profound. Here’s why. If a law is a truly exact mathematical relationship, it requires infinite information to specify it. In my opinion, however, no law can apply to a level of precision finer than all the information in the universe can express. Infinitely precise laws are an extreme idealization with no shred of real-world justification. The laws must be seriously fuzzy in the first split second of cosmic existence. Then, as the universe’s information content climbed, the laws focused and homed in on the life-encouraging form we observe today. But the flaws in the laws left enough wiggle room for the universe to engineer its own bio-friendliness. If there is an ultimate meaning to existence, as I believe, the answer is to be found within nature, not beyond it. The universe might be a fix, but if so, it has fixed itself. (Paul Davies is Director of Beyond, a research centre at Arizona State University, and author of The Goldilocks Enigma.) Taken from: ‘The Flaw in the Creationists’ Argument,’ The Hindu, June 27, 2007 Commentary In the above article, Paul Davies notes, “Scientists are gradually reaching an inconvenient truth, that the universe is an exceedingly precise cosmos. Scientists have been studying the laws of nature that operate in the universe for the past forty years. This research points towards a conscious Being behind the universe. If any one of the laws of the universe is altered, the result would be catastrophic.