"Physical Laws are the origin of life"

(This post is inspired by the book entitled "Gunning for God" by John Lennox, the contents and ideas of this post is paraphrased or quoted directly from the book)

New Atheism challenges the existence of God by denying the necessity of a divine being creating the universe.

The Darwinians and the evolutionist chants away, "The laws of physics and mathematics is sufficient to explain creation and everything after it."

Paul Davies, a well-known Physicist seems to agree with this:

"There's no need to invoke anything supernatural in the origins of the universe or of life. I have never liked the idea of divine tinkering: for me it is much more inspiring to believe that a set of mathematical laws can be so clever as to bring all these things into being."

 But there is an obvious flaw with that theory stated above, most of us who study physics and mathematics know that it is by studying these subjects that we gain a more accurate understanding of our universe, in other words, the laws we study describes the universe to us,

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. (Ps 19)

Now, the physical laws on their own cannot create, or cause anything; they merely describe a pattern that the law behave under the known conditions. For example, the Newton's first law of motion states that a body will keep having the tendency to move if moving or resist the tendency to move if it's stationary. That explains the phenomena of inertia that we encounter even at this moment but it does not even explain how inertia was created. For instance, the laws of motion cannot cause a snooker ball to zip around the pool table, it can only be done with people using their muscles and cues to cause that action. The laws enables us to analyse the motion and predict the trajectory of the ball movement but it it completely powerless to move the ball, let alone bring the ball into existence!

A set of mathematical laws would help us understand the numeral variations that can be produced by adding or even integrating arguments. But it would never be able to create anything! If I multiply 10 with 10, I would most certainly not get 100 dollars on my table! Instead if I work for 10 days earning 10 dollars a day, the law of mathematics would prove to be a worthy explanation of me having 100 dollars by the end of 10 days.

C.S. Lewis also has a say regarding the law of nature in Miracles:

"They produce no events: they state the patten to which every event - if only it can be induced to happen - must conform, just as the rules of arithmetic state the pattern to which all transactions with money must conform - if only you can get hold of money. Thus, in one sense, the laws of nature covers the whole field of space and time; in another, what they leave out is precisely the whole real universe - the incessant torrent of actual events which makes up true history. That must come from something else. To think the laws can produce is like thinking that you can create real money by simply doing sums. For every law says in the last resort: "If you have A, then you will get B. But first catch your A: the laws wouldn't do that for you."