If someone believes that the only alternatives are that God is a personal super-designer of the cosmos, a kind of cosmic Steve Jobs, or the whole show was put together
by evolution over billions of years, how could one possibly
convince this person that the
natural law is part of the divine providence for the cosmos?
A
convinced Platonist, at least with regard to the existence of mathematical
laws, Davies rejects the cultural view of mathematics merely as a language created
by man to describe the
natural world; and like his colleague Roger Penrose (one of the foremost theoreticians on black holes) he flatly asserts that mathematical
laws have an existence of their own: