Poythress: Scientific Theories Approximate God's Speech

God’s speech is the real law governing the world. Scientific theories approximate God’s speech, and so in their theories scientists think God’s thoughts after him… [Scientists] imitate God when they try to reconstruct the laws that originated in God’s mind. There is no tension between God’s providence and science, when we understand science in harmony with what the Bible says about God’s speech.

—Vern Poythress, Chance and the Sovereignty of God (Crossway, 2014), p. 28.