“Most cosmological explanations say or assume that matter behaves and evolves according to the laws of physics. Hence the fundamental question is what caused these laws to exist? As we shall see in Chapter 28 when I examine the evolution of philosophical thinking, there is no clear answer. Even the archetypal rationalist Aristotle was compelled by following the chain of causality to conclude that the first cause must be self-causing, eternal, unchanging, without physical attributes, and hence divine.”