Terms of explanation

The human desire to explain is consistent throughout the ages. What changes is the terms we choose for making our explanations. For a variety of reasons, in contemporary American society, we have determined to explain things in terms of laws following mathematical rules. For some people this kind of explanation of why the planets move as they do, or how the Universe began makes perfect sense. Other people find it just as satisfying to explain these things in terms of God or gods. The science/math people can have difficulty with God as an explanation, because that particular belief is not testable. And those who turn to God for explanation, find it difficult to see how mathematics or science can explain everything.