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Physics can describe with extraordinary precision the forces that operate within the universe gravity, electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force. It can describe with mathematical elegance the relationships between matter and energy, between space and time, between particles and fields. But it cannot answer the question of why these forces exist, why these relationships hold, why the universe is characterized by mathematical order rather than by chaos, why the constants of physics have the precise values they have values that, if altered by infinitesimal amounts, would produce a universe incapable of supporting any form of complexity, let alone life.

This is what physicists and cosmologists sometimes call the fine-tuning of the universe the extraordinary precision with which the fundamental constants of nature are calibrated, a precision so exact and so improbable by any natural explanation that some of the most rigorous scientific minds of the modern era have been driven to acknowledge that it points beyond physics to something or Someone outside the physical universe.

Paul, writing without the vocabulary of modern physics but with the Spirit of the God who made what physics studies, gives the answer with a simplicity that is itself a form of grandeur: by him all things consist. The coherence of the universe the fact that it holds together, that the laws operate, that the constants remain constant, that matter coheres and energy is conserved and the mathematical structure of reality is stable and intelligible is not self-explanatory. It is Christ-explained. It consists by Him. He is the reason there is something rather than nothing. He is the reason the something that exists holds together rather than flying apart into incoherence. He is the ground of existence, the principle of coherence, the sustaining word that keeps the universe in being from moment to moment.


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