SCIENCE SPEAKS ABOUT GOD

SCIENCE SPEAKS ABOUT GOD The Perfection of Natural Laws N ATURE is the subject of science. Science studies nature and discovers those laws through which nature is being governed. In other words, science studies the creation without referring to the Creator. It is not the concern of scientists to discover the Creator. However, this kind of bifurcation is practically impossible. One cannot detach the engineer from the machine, then how can one detach the Creator from the creation? Science discovers the marvels of nature, but the question arises as to who created these marvels? When we try to find out the answer to this question, we cannot help arrive at the conclusion that God exists. A number of books have been written on this subject. A recent one is ‘Why Science Does Not Disprove God’, written by Amir D. Aczel (d. 2015), a lecturer in mathematics and science, and an author. The following are excerpts taken from a review on this book by the physicist Alan Lightman: “There is plenty of good scientific evidence that our universe began about 14 billion years ago, in a Big Bang of enormously high density and temperature, long before planets, stars and even atoms existed. But what came before? [The physicist Lawrence] Krauss in his book discusses the current thinking of physicists that our entire universe could have emerged from a jitter in the amorphous haze of the subatomic world called the quantum foam, in which energy and matter can materialize out of nothing. Krauss’s punch line is that we do not need God to create the universe. The quantum foam can do it quite nicely all on its own. Aczel asks the obvious question: But where did the quantum foam come from? Where did the quantum laws come from? Hasn’t Krauss simply passed the buck? Legitimate questions, but ones we will probably never be able to answer. “…Aczel discusses the mysteries of “emergent” phenomena—when a complex system exhibits a qualitative behavior that cannot be explained in terms of the workings of its individual parts: for example, the emergence of self-replicating life from inanimate molecules or the emergence of consciousness from a collection of connected neurons. He writes, “The inexplicability of such emergent phenomena is the reason why we cannot disprove the idea of some creative power behind everything.