In a fascinating article published a couple of years ago in JETS—entitled Why Scientists Must Believe in God: Divine Attributes of Scientific Law—Vern Poythress argued that “All scientists—including agnostics and atheists—believe in God. They have to in order to do their work.” He argues—persuasively in my view—that scientific law has divine attributes (power, personal character, incomprehensibility, goodness, beauty, and rectitude). Poythress even believers that there is a trinitarian nature to scientific law, and that God reveals himself through it. He also explores how this perspective can be a fruitful platform for witnessing to both ordinary people and scientists.
