The Sudden Dawn of the Cosmos and the Constancy of Physical Laws

If God works in mysterious ways, we have no way of understanding what He's doing. He could change the laws of physics at any time.

What's your point? I said that if God works in mysterious ways, there's no way for us to tell when His ways will change. If God works in mysterious ways, "communion" with Him has no value because He might change His mind tomorrow.

Billions of years.

That's an odd conclusion. One of the central characteristics of science is that it IS dependable. We throw out the bits that don't work - like alchemy, astrology and young-earth creationism. If science wasn't dependable, we couldn't get to the moon and back; we couldn't generate power from nuclear fission; we couldn't even have cars powered by exploding hydrocarbons.Science does work.So your conclusion is obviously wrong, like concluding that bumblebees can't fly.There must be some flaw in your logic. Maybe all your if if if if ifs aren't true?

Sure. It doesn't matter. Whether your car is gasoline or electric, you drive it the same. It doesn't matter. It could be Quetzalcoatl or it could be Zeus. What matters is the laws themselves. As long as we know WHAT they are, we don't need to know "where they came from". You have it backwards. If the laws were created by an all-powerful God, what's to prevent him from changing the laws at his whim? How could we trust them? No. We can NOT trust in a God who was the power to arbitrarily change the laws. We trust the laws themselves only because we do not observe them changing. Ifr they did change, we would change our use of them. No. We do NOT have "faith" in the universe. We only react to what we see it doing. If its behavior changed, we would change our reaction. We have no more "faith" in it than we have in the direction that a baseball will bounce on the field. We can only react to what it actually DOES. See above. You can NOT be certain of a God who has the power to change "the truth".