Who wrote the laws of physics?

In today's New York Times, staff science writer Dennis Overbye considers the controversy engendered by a recent op-ed article in that same newspaper that posited science is as faith-based as religion. Many of Davies' critics noted that the scientific process has worked well for us for the last 2,000 years, and that it has produced real results. But Overbye admits these critics miss Davies' point, "What [Davies] wanted to challenge was not the existence of laws, but the conventional thinking about their source."

Now, you ask simple people like myself about where any law came from, and they'll tell you that some intelligent being wrote them. That's why I titled this post "Who wrote the laws of physics?" and not "Where did the laws of physics come from?" Things like laws don't just appear out of nothing. The Bible gives us some insight here. In John 1:3, it says, "Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made."

Seems straightforward to me. For evidence, we have the Bible, 2,000 years of Christian history, and the living testimony of some hundreds of millions of professing Chrisitans around the world. And how do the scientists explain the laws of physics? Speculation, as Overbye writes, "Since cosmologists don’t know how the universe came into being, or even have a convincing theory, they have no way of addressing the conundrum of where the laws of nature come from or whether those laws are unique and inevitable or flaky as a leaf in the wind."