A very good friend of mine, who was a researcher at Sandia labs at the time, told me the same thing, so persuasively that it changed the trajectory of my life. Many who call themselves men of science are made insecure by the idea of things they can not understand, especially the very intelligent. Others are relieved that they don't have to know everything while still finding meaning in their lives.
With a degree from Cal Tech, Sandage is one of America's preeminent cosmologists. A protégé of Edwin Hubble, Sandage has won many honors for his work, including the Craaford Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, astronomy's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Sandage told a 1985 conference on science and religion that the Big Bang was a supernatural event that cannot be explained within the realm of physics as we know it, and that science had taken us to the First Event, but it cannot take us further to the First Cause. The sudden emergence of matter, space, time, and energy pointed, Sandage said, to the need for some kind of transcendence. Sandage told Newsweek magazine in 1998 that "It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It was only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence."
In an article published in 2000, Sandage wrote, “The world is too complicated in all its parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Each part of a living thing depends on all its other parts to function. How does each part know? How is each part specified at conception? The more one learns of biochemistry the ore unbelievable it becomes unless there is some type of organizing principle – an architect for believers, a mystery to be solved by science (even as to “why”) sometime in the indefinite future for materialist reductionists.”