There is no need to understand the workings of creation, which only G-d can do
I find that a curious statement, and would be obliged if you'd elaborate on it.
It seems to imply that some fields of scientific inquiry might be "off-limits" ...
1) Is that a correct interpretation of your statement?
1a) If so, what are those fields?
2)If not, what does it mean?
realize you must regard me as a simpleton,
That bit, frankly, got old a long time ago. Your commentary on this forum cannot possibly have come from a simpleton.
By its very nature, science is limited to the world as it operates today. How the universe came into being is by definition beyond its purview, just as you would regard the literal historicity of J*sus' virgin birth as beyond its purview. What is controversial about that? Simply put, science cannot, from viewing the processes of the universe as they exist today, say anything about how those processes came into existence, since the "laws of nature" did not exist at the time those processes didn't exist, or were being created. As I said, the creation of the universe is primarily theology and secondarily history. It is not science at all.
Your commentary on this forum cannot possibly have come from a simpleton.
It's very kind of you to say that.