(July 9, 2017 at 4:49 am)Dropship Wrote:(July 8, 2017 at 2:58 pm)Whateverist Wrote: I'm no math dummy but I may be a total dummy where gods are concerned. I've seen a little math but I've never seen a trace of god - either in the math or any where else. On the other hand, I've found the phrase "In God we trust" engraved on money - and I do believe in money. If your faith had been faltering maybe that will help you make it to the finish line. But give up on the math, there is no God there.
Which brings us back to the old dilemma of whether we should believe scientists who say stuff like this-
"Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe."- Galileo
"We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.."- Alexander Polyakov (Soviet mathematician),Gannes, S. October 13, 1986. Fortune. p. 57
"If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God."-Lord Kelvin (British scientist)
"We would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists"- Carl Sagan
"I cannot be sure that God does not exist"- Richard Dawkins
PS- Are my posts displaying alright? They seem to be running into other and it's hard to tell where one ends and another begins, plus the quote function further complicates the issue.
Your posts look fine to me.
As to why so many mathematicians see God in math it isn't very mysterious. Math and God are two of mankind's more ambitious creations. If one is brought up in religion one may well marvel at the 'divine' order of mathematics. But that would be a euphemism.
