Member-only story
God and the Mystery of Nature’s Intelligibility
Disposing of a weak argument for theism
Christian apologists who want to “save” humanity by persuading everyone to adopt their bizarre religious beliefs and practices will seize any opportunity to propose a feeble reason to think God exists.
You find one such reason in an article called “Why Is Nature Intelligible?” on Stand to Reason, an apologetics organization.
The author Katie Hulse says, “The world could have been different. Yet we find ourselves in a world that makes sense to us, that we’re able to grasp. We find ourselves in a world that’s conducive to scientific study and investigation.”
She then argues that whereas scientists often just regard nature’s intelligibility and the “laws of nature” as brute facts, the theist has a deeper explanation: “The Judeo-Christian worldview recognizes and accounts for the fact that nature exhibits patterns and regularity… It explains that the universe was created by a rational God and therefore exhibits a rational ordering and structure.”
Moreover, she says, “The Judeo-Christian worldview accounts for nature’s intelligibility [to us] as well. It says that we’re able to comprehend the natural world because God made human beings in his image…We’re rational beings made in the image of a rational…
