13th May 2006, 11:17 PM
Yes, it is very common, but you have it reversed. We found an accurate system explaning a commonality in the universe, not the universe designed itself around the system.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)