Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician and ordained protestant minister born in 1571. He embarked on a quest with his associate Tycho Brahe, to track to movements of the planets. He was looking for a perfect design in the universe. He thought the solar system for made up of concentric spheres and various regular polyhedrons. He found out he was wrong and the universe was not made of perfect circles, rather it was made of ellipses.

Kepler was on a search for God. He was looking for God in science, but with the discovery of ellipses rather than circles, Kepler was discouraged. In all reality, Kepler found unity in the universe and he did not realize it.

With the discovery of ellipses along with the discovery of gravity by Sir Isaac Newton and other physics discoveries, we are reassured that there is something out there that holds the universe together. Thus, the existance of a super-powerful force is evident. Something governs the laws of the universe and something had to create them. If we describe God as a sel existant being, then it is pretty obvious that Kepler found what he was looking for.