Where Do the Scientific Laws Come from?
If the universe emerges as a quantum fluctuation, we need to ask where quantum theory itself comes from Where does the pattern of the world come from and how is it maintained? This is not a “god of the gaps” argument as science itself assumes these laws in order to work. There is a long tradition stretching back to Newton who saw the laws of the universe as work of the divine lawgiver. Kepler was “carried away by unutterable rapture” as the correlation between orbital periods and mean diameters, which showed that the planets moved in elliptical orbits, was disclosed. Once again the Christian will argue that God is the natural answer. (3) Why Is the Universe Intelligible? Einstein once said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. Yet why should this be the case, that the mathematics of our minds resonates with the mathematics of the universe? Some writers, including J. Polkinghorne, suggest that the natural answer is that there exists a crea
