TO BE sure, scientific investigators keep discovering new ways that material forces cause and shape various things in nature. But atheists don’t own the insight that we live in a world with underlying physical laws. Far from it. The idea was encouraged by the Christian belief that nature is the rational and orderly work of a divine mind, a cosmic lawgiver. That faith spurred Christians such as Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler to go looking for the underlying laws. They looked for them, found them, and in the process launched the scientific revolution. It’s no coincidence, after all, that the
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