Alan Shepherd, the very first American astronaut in space, was asked by a reporter just before he got into the capsule: "What is the one thing you’re depending on most in this space venture?" His answer was classic, "I’m depending on the fact that God’s laws never change." What if the rotation of the earth was inconsistent? What if gravity reversed every other day? When He made the whole universe, He established some universal laws. They never change. They never have and they never will. The reason we can study science is because it is predictable. We can study some verifiable facts of life of physics that do not change.
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