If There Were A Divinity

 This was a quote by a dark matter scientist.

I'll include the longer passage below.

"Utterly separate from scientific enquiry

and human longing."

I rather like this.

So far outside understanding

we could neither measure

or pursue them into being.

It seems to me humans

tend to confine their 

sense of Divinity 

into too small a space,

with too confining a definition.

I am open to a Being

beyond any human capability

to define or confine.

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Here's the entire passage.

“My sense,’ I say to Christopher, ‘is that the search for dark matter has produced an elaborate, 

delicate edifice of presuppositions, and a network of worship sites, also known as laboratories, all dedicated to the search for an invisible universal entity which refuses to reveal itself. It seems to resemble what we call religion rather more than what we call science.’

‘I grew up as a very serious Christian,’ Christopher says. ‘Then I lost my faith almost entirely when I found physics. Now that faith has returned, but in a much-changed form. It’s true that we dark-matter researchers have less proof than other scientists in terms of what we seek to discover and what we believe we know. As to God? Well, if there were a divinity then it would be utterly separate from both scientific enquiry and human longing.’

 . . .

‘No divinity in which I would wish to believe would declare itself by means of what we would recognize as evidence.’ He gestures at the data read-out. ‘If there is a god, we should not be able to find it. If I detected proof of a deity, I would distrust that deity on the grounds that a god should be smarter than that.” 

― Robert McFarlane, Underland