Is God a scientist or a magician?

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Question is God a magician or a scientist is God a magician who does anything at any time without any reference to any laws or patterns or is God a scientist who follows systematic laws and patterns while doing things answer God is both he is a magician and he is a scientist in fact he transends both categories because he is omnipotent now often this conflict is brought between is God a magician or is God a scientist because scientific materialism is enshrined as absolute reality and anything that contradicts scientific materialism is dubbed as unscientific magical and unbelievable but when we see the scientific orderliness of the universe as not an absolute attribute not an absolute truth but as an attribute of the absolute truth that means it is God who has created the systems by which the universe operates in an orderly manner so that Krishna says that under my supervision material nature acts in its own orders and patterns and makes things happen so the orderliness of nature is there as a fact but it is not an absolute fact it is a fact which is subordinate to the absolute fact of God’s supremacy so therefore God has arranged nature in such a way that normally it works according to an orderly pattern and science studies that orderly pattern and in fact science has studied but still has not come to the end the orderliness of the universe is so intricate so delicate so complicated that science has been studying it for centuries and centuries and centuries and still it is going on studying at a deeper and deeper level science has thought at the start of the 20th century that the complexity of the visible universe will be reduced to simplicity of laws laws and particles at the subatomic level but as we went down to subatomic level the particles themselves have become more and more complex and the laws themselves have become more and more complex so complexity has not reduced down to simplicity and that’s why one famous scientist said that the universe looks more like a great mind than a great machine that means we are seeing that the universe is orderly at every level and that orderliness is not just mechanical automatically mechanical it is a reflection of a greatly intelligent mind so if it were impossible to reduce things from the complex to the simple then and ultimately everything has started only from the very simple say particles moving around have led to the whole universe with all its life so if the reduction from complexity to simplicity had been successful then we could have said that god can exist only as a scientist that means that god has to work according to these laws only and there is no other way that god can work but what we have found is that there are complex laws at the visible level and if we go down to the smaller microscopic level there the laws are even more complex they are not simple so now complexity itself cannot come by chance something is simple it could have come by chance complexity requires a complex brain to bring it about and the level of complexity at even the small microscopic level is so great that it could not have come by chance it has to come by intelligence so therefore the point which is being made is that the scientific nature of the universe does not reduce god to the role of only a scientist who cannot do anything beyond the laws of nature beyond the laws of nature no the laws of nature themselves have no explanation apart from the explanation that they have come from god in the road to reality there is a famous book written by a pioneer by a prominent scientist so he mentions that actually where do the laws of mathematics come from several scientists have asked this question and they have no answer at the reductionistic level so the laws of nature which are the foundation of science come from the super intelligence of god Srinivasa Ramanuja said that an equation for me has no meaning unless it represents a thought of god so now we can say god is a scientist yes he is a supreme scientist but he is superior to science it is he who has made the laws that make science possible but those laws have not come about automatically because complex laws are not reducible to simple laws rather complex laws are founded to be existing on the foundation of further complex laws so therefore all this complexity has come from the complex brain of god so god is the supreme scientist but he is more than a scientist it is you who has set the laws and because he is omnipotent he can be beyond the laws and he can when he wants subordinate those laws and that is how he can make miracles happen so now god does not do it normally but whenever occasionally he wants to he can do it so you and I cannot lift up a mountain but when god wants to do it he who has made the law of gravity by which things have a mass which pushes them down but when he wants he can suspend the law of gravity and on his little pinky a huge mountain can be held for seven weeks so this does not indicate that god is just a magician the idea that god is just a scientist makes god subordinate to science and denies god is omnipotent the idea that god is only a magician that makes the whole universe seem disorderly and that god can do anything at any time and that is not the way science has observed the universe to be science has found the universe to be orderly and therefore the idea of a god as an arbitrary magician seems to contradict the idea of the foundational basis of science but rather than seeing god’s magical role and god’s scientific role as contradictory we see them both as attributes of god’s omnipotence you know it is by his omnipotence that he has set such a magnificent order in the universe an order that is being slowly painstakingly being discovered at some fractional level by science and it is that same god by his omnipotence can at times suspend the orderliness of the universe to do something extraordinary and that is his miraculous activities which seem magical so god transcends both categories science and magic and his omnipotence is the supreme reality which defines him so god is both a scientist and a magician and he is more thank you