People need to explain the universe through a godly power

Question: What is dark matter?
Position‹4 of 4: Dark matter does not exist
Argument1 of 2›: People need to explain the universe through a godly power

People should not think of unexplainable phenomena in the universe, like the speed of start rotations and others, through missing matter or altering laws of gravity. There is a mysterious godly power keeping the universe together.

The argument

On this view the laws of the universe and the phenomena that astronomers and scientists detect are beyond the scientific ability to explain. These phenomena are held to be mysteries created by the higher power of God, and people will not be able to account for it through theories or experimentation. The higher power of God, on this account, permits for the existence of a universe in mysterious and odd ways, so that what appears to science as an unexplained anomaly is not a gap awaiting the right theory but the mark of something lying outside the reach of theories altogether. The argument then anticipates the obvious reply. Even if science was able to come up with some predictions regarding the nature of the universe, or if experiments were able to detect some kind of dark matter, the theory will never have enough evidence to turn into a fact. Prediction and detection are here treated as always provisional, so no accumulation of either could close the question in the way a demonstration would. Scientists also cannot disprove godly power as an answer to the mysteries of the universe, which is offered as the symmetrical point: the explanation is not one that evidence could remove. Physics and scientific laws are merely a description of what is happening in the universe under certain conditions and are limited in their ability to explain the universe, a distinction between describing how things behave and saying why there is anything behaving at all. Held in this form, the position does not rest on any observation that might later be revised, and those who advance it conclude that the unexplained motions attributed to dark matter are the work of a godly power rather than of unseen matter.

Premises

[P1]Proponents hold that the laws and phenomena astronomers detect lie beyond scientific explanation and are mysteries created by the higher power of God, which sustains the universe in odd and inexplicable ways. [P2] They argue that even predictive theories or detections could never gather enough evidence to become fact, and that science—being only a limited description of conditions—cannot disprove God as the answer. [C] Because the universe's mysteries are attributed to a godly power rather than unseen matter, on this view dark matter does not exist.

Counter-arguments

Scientists were able to propose many consistent theories to explain the universe. One of the most attractive and discussed laws is the existence of dark matter. Mathematical calculations emerge supporting the theory and efforts to detect dark matter continue. Every phenomena in the universe can be questioned, debated, and tested instead of relying on the explanation of a higher power. The universe existed spontaneously according to the laws of science and all the phenomena in it can be explained by science.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P1] The premise takes the current absence of an explanation as evidence that none is possible, which the history of the same field tells against — phenomena once placed beyond explanation, from planetary motion to the source of stellar energy, were subsequently accounted for, so an unexplained observation supports continued inquiry rather than its closure. [Rejecting P2] The second premise disqualifies its own position, since a claim that cannot be disproved and that no evidence could bear on is not thereby better supported than a testable one; and even granting the theology entirely, it would not deliver the conclusion — the galactic rotation curves, lensing and cosmic-microwave-background measurements that motivate dark matter would still require an account of what is producing them.