Dark Matters

I temporarily depart from the usual topic in Tanach to consider something I have encountered in a recent course in cosmology.  There is something called dark matter and dark energy which is accepted by most physicists and astronomers.  Dark matter cannot be seen or measured.  Nobody has ever seen it.  Nobody has ever measured it.  There are various reasons given why we can't measure or interact with dark matter.  All the reasons are guesses and the reality is that nobody knows.  The same applies to dark energy.  Although it is  invisible but the  influence of dark matter and dark energy on our universe is huge.  It is generally accepted that more than 90% of the matter of the universe is dark matter and similarly most of the energy of the universe is dark energy.  Why are scientists so sure that dark matter exists.  You can't see it or measure it.  The reason is quite complex and most of it is beyond my understanding, but it stems from the  fact that if you calculate the gravitational forces in the galaxies of the observable universe, there is not enough there to account for the observed orbital behavior and the rate of expansion of the universe which is observed by modern astronomical instruments such as the Hubble telescope and the Webb telescope.

So in essence scientists are able to accept the existence of something they can't see, feel or measure because of the effect it has on our world.  This paradigm of thought should sound familiar to those who are people of faith.  The faith community looks at the world and sees the hand of God in its day to day existence.  We can't see Him or measure Him.  But we know He is there. The ultimate question is are the events around me just random or is there invisible force driving the course of our lives.  For many people of science it is easy to accept dark matter but much harder to accept the creator of the universe although the path of reasoning is similar if not identical.