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in response to forces, but they don’t reveal why.
The second law of thermodynamics tells us that the entropy in any isolated system never decreases, but it doesn’t explain why.
Statistical mechanics goes a bit deeper to describe at a microscopic level how the entropy of the universe increases, but it doesn’t tell us why.
Snell’s law describes how light refracts as it moves from one medium to another, but it doesn’t tell us why.
The laws of electricity and magnetism tell us how electrical charges and magnets behave, but they don’t tell us why they behave that way.
Lest you despair over how little we actually know about the universe, consider that, perhaps,
we are expecting too much of science.
Any system of knowledge must begin with a few assumptions, things that appear to be obvious to all, such as axioms, postulates, and definitions.
One then builds upon these starting assumptions, and without these assumptions, nothing can be built.
The question of why ultimately belongs to philosophy and theology, not to empirical science. Yet most scientists unknowingly start with the assumption of naturalism, that only the natural world exists. In other words, naturalism assumes that there is no God or at the very least, that God is irrelevant to the natural world.
The world exists the way it does because that is the way the world evolved. The worldview of most scientists excludes the possibility of God designing the world, so why look for design that they don’t think is there? It makes no sense to ask why questions about the world. All that matters is the question of how the world operates.
What we see in the universe goes beyond simply making life possible. The design reveals something about God.
The question of why ultimately belongs to philosophy and theology, not to empirical science. Yet most scientists unknowingly start with the assumption of naturalism, that only the natural world exists. In other words, naturalism assumes that there is no God or at the very least, that God is irrelevant to the natural world.
The world exists the way it does because that is the way the world evolved. The worldview of most scientists excludes the possibility of God designing the world, so why look for design that they don’t think is there? It makes no sense to ask why questions about the world. All that matters is the question of how the world operates.
What we see in the universe goes beyond simply making life possible. The design reveals something about God.
*Psalm 19:1 [The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky.webp)
above proclaims His handiwork.] tells us that the heavens declare God’s glory.
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*Romans 1:19–20 [For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.] goes further, telling us that the world around us demonstrates that God exists and that he is very powerful.
*We ignore this warning of Romans 1:19–20 at our eternal peril." AIG
