When God doesn’t need to do research, can he be considered a scientist?

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Hare Krishna question is God not much of a scientist because he does not do research work answer scientists are not those who only do research work, science is primarily a disposition a mental disposition wherein one looks for rational order within the universe so now to verify whether first to find out what that rational order is scientists observe then they theorize and then they do experiments which involve research work but the essence of science is not research work the essence of science is the overall disposition of looking for order within the natural phenomena now when we are saying whether God is a scientist or not the point here is that if we are proposing God to be the creator of the world then or if he is the designer of the world directly or indirectly then the world features laws the world features a large part of the universe from the microscopic to the macroscopic levels actually features orderly behavior of particles which can be actually not just expressed as laws but as laws of mathematical precision so now the question comes is if this the universe is exhibiting orderly behavior then can that orderly behavior be attributed to its designer if it can then in that sense he is a supreme scientist so when we are saying that God is a scientist that is not a question about that is not a challenge to his omniscience that God does not have to do research because he knows everything so in that sense he is not a scientist that is not the context of the discussion the context of the discussion is that whether belief in God requires one to reject science no it doesn’t because belief in science requires one to accept God because we can scientists cannot work unless they assume as an article of faith that there is a order in nature and then they try to find out what that order is scientists especially materialistic reductionistic naturalistic atheistic scientists may not attribute that order to God they may say that they have no explanation why the order is there they say it is either by chance or just an intrinsic feature of nature or it has come from God these are basically three explanations they are not ready to accept the divine explanation many of them but then there are other explanations why should it be an intrinsic feature that has no answer and by chance the order the level of order is so complex and intricate that it cannot have come by chance so the point here is that when we say God is a scientist or God is a supreme scientist then actually speaking what we are implying is that there is not a contradiction between God and science there may be some problems with some specific theories of science but that is the very nature of the evolving knowledge of science but the principle of science the foundational spirit of science is that the scientists want to investigate what is the order in nature and that is essentially indispensably compatible with the existence of God because God is the giver of the order Krishna says that material nature works under my supervision and by its order things are created and destroyed there is an order in nature Krishna is saying and that order is coming from him its under his supervision so God is a scientist in the sense that it is by his supreme scientific intelligence that he has imbued nature with the order that science can discover and utilize so God is the supreme scientist Hare Krishna