Prometheus 6

That wasn't his intent, though. What he's TRYING to do is establish an equivalence between religion and science.

All science proceeds on the assumption that nature is ordered in a rational and intelligible way. You couldn’t be a scientist if you thought the universe was a meaningless jumble of odds and ends haphazardly juxtaposed.

That right there means intelligent design cannot be science.

A second reason that the laws of physics have now been brought within the scope of scientific inquiry is the realization that what we long regarded as absolute and universal laws might not be truly fundamental at all, but more like local bylaws. They could vary from place to place on a mega-cosmic scale. A God’s-eye view might reveal a vast patchwork quilt of universes, each with its own distinctive set of bylaws. In this “multiverse,” life will arise only in those patches with bio-friendly bylaws, so it is no surprise that we find ourselves in a Goldilocks universe — one that is just right for life. We have selected it by our very existence.

The multiverse theory is increasingly popular, but it doesn’t so much explain the laws of physics as dodge the whole issue. There has to be a physical mechanism to make all those universes and bestow bylaws on them. This process will require its own laws, or meta-laws. Where do they come from? The problem has simply been shifted up a level from the laws of the universe to the meta-laws of the multiverse.

Let's take two sticks and drop one on top of the other. What is the physical mechanism that bestows an angleon the sticks there they intersect? What bestows a number of degrees on that angle?

In other words, the laws should have an explanation from within the universe and not involve appealing to an external agency. The specifics of that explanation are a matter for future research.

That's like saying the rules of barbequing are dependant on the method used to kill the pig.

But until science comes up with a testable theory of the laws of the universe, its claim to be free of faith is manifestly bogus.

Science has been testing since before it broke away from the Catholic and Angelican churches. That's WHY they broke away from the Catholic and Angelican churches.

The whole idea that the universe is testible is really self-evident. It takes no faith beyond trusting your own sanity. And if you think THAT is a matter of faith, I believe you're beyond help from science or religion.