What is PAT saying?
I think he's saying that the natural world is easier to study than God. The agnostic in me totally agrees. I find God nigh to unknowable and difficult for my puny brain to encapsulate.
What I know about God is what has been revealed to me directly, and that ain't much. And God is too important a subject to take any other man's word for it -- especially a single source. I wouldn't take a single source for the repair record for a used Nissan -- why would I accept it for anything actually important?