Nothing has ever been “thought to be squarely within the domain of theology or philosophy.”

The creation of the universe has been tackled by countless poets – so that’s certainly not squarely belonging to one domain – think of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Coleridge tackled everything in poetry; “explaining his metaphysics to the nation / I wish he would explain his explanation” as Lord Byron put it.

Nietzsche’s philosophy overlaps with Keats’s letters. Hegel and Wordsworth are intimately intertwined.

The idea that these controversies have ever belonged to one discipline of thought is ridiculous.

To answer the question posed in the title of this article: no, of course not you silly silly people. With religion and philosophy, we can always simply say that our understanding of physics is an explanation of “the way and not the why.”