Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Simpson , George Gaylord (1987-12-01), Simple curiosity ; letters from George Gaylord Simpson to his family, 1921-1970, Univ of California Pr, Retrieved on 2012-05-27Source Material [books.google.com]
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27 MAY 2012
The Unexplainable
Given the universe, even a universe devoide of matter as such but provided with the actual laws of nature, everything that exists could, and I firmly believe did, develop from and in this without outside, divine, supernatural interference. But that universe, with its laws! For one thing there is nothing inevitable about the laws. It is a fact that masses attract each other, that gravity exists, but a universe in which masses repelled each other is also conceivable, and in it nothing could pos...The Universe is ultimately unexplainable, and to call it "god" does nothing to counter this fact.