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Not if the universe was spoken into existence with the laws of science in place. As long God is not actively manipulating and changing said laws, we can study and measure and quantify to our hearts content.

To expand on your point....

I am on the invitation-only BBB (Big Blue Bunny) mail list and I got an email about 15 minutes ago which I have to believe you will find illuminating.

The gist of it is this: The Universe as we know it came into existence yesterday (Friday December 23rd 2005 in our calendar) at around 14:00 hours Zulu time. I was just leaving Starbucks, IIRC. BBB explains in the email that "our" universe was -- how can I put this? -- untarred from an archive of one of his previous works, the Universe "Edslen". BBB apparently ran some sed/awk scripts on the archive to fix up "global worming". While the results of his earlier effort were amusing, BBB really hated what David Lynch did with it, thus the Universe as we know it today.
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Jim


'Tis the exceptional fellow who lies awake at night thinking of his successes.