When science explains planetary motion through gravity, why do we need God to explain it?

From Paul

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Hare Krishna question when science explains the motion of the planets in terms of gravity adequately why do we need god to explain the motion of planets how can we understand when religionists say that it is god who is responsible for the motion of the planets answer the two are not contradictory they are complementary when we say that the planets move because of the laws of gravity we have to understand what does this mean it simply means that the planets are existing if the planets are already existing then the law already exists then the law can explain the way in which the planets move when we say the law explains what does it mean it does not mean that the law is the cause the law is the mathematical postulation and the verbal expression of the way in which these interact so laws are not the causes leave alone the creators of anything so they are simply the mechanism by which things are working so to give another example suppose say your suppose your friend is a car designer and your friend has designed a car and that person takes a car to a tribal area where people have never seen a car and then they see a car they start figuring out how does this car work it is moving without any horse without anyone to pull it and then they may think that may be there is somebody inside this car who is causing it to move and then they go inside the car dickey and the car engineer is there someone who is making this car move they can’t find anyone over there and then may be someone studies engineering and that person understands ok this car is moving because of the combustion so now one may understand the laws of combustion and the principles of mechanical design and by the law of combustion and the conversion of fuel to mechanical energy one will be able to adequately explain the way the car moves that is ok but that does not in any way imply that there is no designer for the car and that person is not just a designer it’s not that the person designed the car and left the person set up a mechanism which is working because of the intelligence of that person so the point which we are making over here is that a mechanism a mechanism may be adequate for explaining the way things work but that mechanism does not in any way explain itself now where did the mechanism come from where did the things on which the mechanism operate come from this is not explained over there so yes there is a mechanism by which the car works and there is a designer whose brain has made the car both of them are complementary similarly now gravity is our understanding of the way the planets move and within our scale of observation it as far as we know is correct but that does not mean that it has all come about by chance Newton did not think that oh now I have come up with the equation of gravity therefore there is no need for God no he saw that this law of gravity which he has postulated is evidence, is an expression of the way God works so the two are complementary not contradictory thank you Hare Krishna