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Do you ever wonder about the rules which regulate and sustain the matter. Or the mechanics that enable planetary bodies to gravitational form solar systems. Or the way nuclear chemistry results in an energy source that provides the impetus for life.

Sure I wonder (not in those exact words though) But I reconcile those thoughts by coming to the conclusion that it was always that way. Gravity, matter, energy, cycles (the whole shabang) has always been there (here/everywhere). If I believed the laws of physics only existed, as we know them, at the whim of a higher being then I would have to believe they could be changed by the same whim. That would require a leap of faith that I, as of yet, have not been blessed with.

I would have to see evidence (for example) that all of the sudden an action no longer has an equal but opposite reaction anymore in order to believe what you do. And if that happened, boy would I believe. You betcha.

You have based your belief in a higher being, or lack thereof, on very cheap stuff. Ina world of black holes and quantum mechanics and big bangs beyond which we can't see, and string theory and theories (scientific) of other dimensions and universes, picturing a scenario in which the natural laws of physics reverse is not hard at all. The way we view the physical universe certainly bent with Einstein's General Relativity. Strange things go on around a black hole and scientists deem what goes on inside to be "unknowable." Indeed, somehow all this matter that follows thes rigid rules that give you comfort gets compressed into an infinitely small place, where the rules of matter and time break down completely. What was here ceases to be anywhere or anywhen, and the scientists are quite content with such "magical" views of reality.

The universe is an immense mystery and truly understanding it is beyond the brainpower of our greatest scientists. In the end, it all leads to either meaning or meaninglessness. My best guess is there is meaning of a kind we cannot comprehend. And that, like the pre Big Bang or the unknowable inside of a black hole, begins to take on some of the attributes of an unknowable God who controls existence and nonexistence.