Sir Isaac Newton and the Intelligent Designer

“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.”

-Alexander Pope

A lot of the supporters of Intelligent Design take offence at Darwin's hypotheses and evolution. I think they are fighting on the wrong battleground. Darwin's theory/hypothesis of survival of the fittest is an approximate and empirical theory. Adaptation is too. We see the effects of both of these hypotheses but we cannot measure them. There are no equations to convert these discoveries into solid mathematical truths. At least not yet. And hence it is easy to pick on them.

There are people who say "I don't believe I evolved from a monkey." That's right, they haven't evolved from a monkey. But give it time.

These people say dinosaurs never existed. And that we are not descended from one-cell bacteria. They don't believe in Darwin's theories. They also believe that the world is approximately 6000 years old. And so on. But just like I said, they chose the battleground that's easy. No hard science. No equations. It's easy to fight words with words.

The battleground should be changed. We need to shift the argument from Darwin to Newton (and Einstein, Penrose, Feynman, Hawking, Schrödinger...) The essence of science is in measurements, and its ability to predict. And what are equations? Equations capture the essence of a natural event (or in other words the natural law governing that event) and puts in a form that is concise yet elaborately accurate. And since it captures only the essence of the event, not the event itself, therefore you can use the equation over and over again to predict similar events in the future.

But who made the law in the first place? The laws of this country or any another are made by its the citizens. The laws of nature aren't made by man. The laws existed long before man could read, write, talk, measure or form equations. The laws existed long before the first human existed. Long before the the first bacterium was created. And long before any life existed anywhere. It is possible these natural laws are the cause for the creation of life!! Whose laws are these? Newton's? Hawking's? The Intelligent Designer's?

I may actually agree on the last answer!

Scientists don't make natural laws. Human's don't make science. We merely discover truths that exist in the world around us. And the study of science is the study of the mind of God. God's truths are not in the Bible, the Koran, the Geeta, the Torah or the Talmud. It is in the equation that says that matter and energy are indestructible and interchangeable. It is in the force that binds all matter (and energy) together. Now that is a very intelligent design. It is so intelligent that it is perfect. It is so perfect that everything in this universe is in perfect balance. It is the perfect clockwork. So perfect that it runs itself without the need for intervention by its designer! I mean if the Intelligent Designer had to step in time to time to fix things then that would mean, His (or Her) design was not perfect, was not flawless. An Imperfect God? I don't know what you believers think of an Imperfect God, but to me, as a man of science, that is blasphemy!

But no, there is hope. God is not imperfect. Sir Isaac Newton and his worthy successors, have opened our eyes and we see that the universe is indeed quite perfect. Everything is in perfect balance and harmony. So perfect that it does not even need a God.

The designer has designed himself out of the design.