(December 29, 2008 at 12:04 pm)CoxRox Wrote: "But as you go on, you realize that these different areas are connected in the most astonishing yet natural ways. You may discover that what you thought of as purely a part of geometry turns out to be an essential part of algebra. And what we're dealing with is not just something we've made up. It's a reality. It's there.''If math is the language in which god has written nature, would that not imply that all math should have a counterpart in nature? Well, the fact is that there is a lot of math with no counterpart in nature. For long it was thought that god had written nature in Euclidean Geometry (EG). How could there be something other than EG? It was derived from rock solid assumptions that everyone could but verify. So it was thought. Till Einstein came along and showed that space is warped to form non-euclidean geometries. Also Gödel showed shortcomings of certain logic.
Math is a tool made and used by humans. To assert a divine agent from the iterative consonance between nature and mathematics is to assert that hammers and nails need a divine agent to explain their aptness to construct houses with them.
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0