Many scientists have also come to believe that there must be an intelligent force governing the universe, because it has become scientifically more plausible to believe in a creator and a designer than to believe in the creation of the universe by random chance, said Father Spitzer. What scientists now know is that if the mass of the universe were slightly greater, there would be nothing in space but a dense black hole. If the mass were slightly smaller, all of the particles would have flown apart, and there would be no universe. Father Spitzer said Albert Einstein and other scientists eventually concluded that some intelligent force brought about the universe, because the odds against the emergence of human life by chance are so high that Creation made more sense. Father Spitzer said religion should not venture into science's territory, but neither should science pronounce on matters of faith.
Science is concerned with physical reality.
Faith doesn't restrict itself to physical reality. The scientists of the 19th century believed that believers' view of Creation and the intelligent force behind today's physical force was naive. Now, says Father Spitzer, most scientists realize that science simply has nothing to say about humanity's instinctive hunger for God. Isaac Newton, the discoverer of gravity, and author of two of the most influential physics books ever written, retired from science at the age of 29, and devoted the rest of his life to theology, said Father Spitzer. He certainly believed in a Designer.