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Sunday, July 16, 2006Let us reflect now on what mathematics is. In itself it is an abstract system, an invention of the human spirit, and as such in its purity it does not really exist. It is always realized approximately, but – as such – it is an intellectual system, a great, brilliant invention of the human spirit. The surprising thing is that this invention of our human mind is truly the key for understanding nature, that nature is really structured in a mathematical way, and that our mathematics, which our spirit invented, really is the instrument for being able to work with nature, to put it at our service through technology. It seems an almost incredible thing to me that an invention of the human intellect and the structure of the universe coincide: the mathematics we invented really gives us access to the nature of the universe and permits us to use it. [...] I think that this intersection between what we have thought up and how nature unfolds and behaves is an enigma and a great challenge, because we see that, in the end, there is one logic that links these two: our reason could not discover the other if there were not an identical logic at the source of both. In this sense, it seems to me that mathematics – in which God as such does not appear – shows us the intelligent structure of the of the universe. Now there are also theories of chaos, but these are limited, because if chaos had the upper hand, all technology would become impossible. Technology is trustworthy only because our mathematics is trustworthy. Our science, which ultimately makes it possible to work with the energies of nature, presupposes the trustworthy, intelligent structure of matter, [...] the “design” of creation. Hint: He's a German, but not this one Give up? It's him. More interesting thoughts here. posted by Sydney on 7/16/2006 12:00:00 AM 5 comments 5 Comments:Some might say that mathematics is the only thing which does exist, the only truth there is in the universe. We didn't invent it, we discovered it. It was already there before we existed. Perhaps mathematics IS God.
In the beginning there was the Word,and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Ah, a can of worms indeed.
Well, from a Christian perspective, God is love. Suffering doesn't exist because God's love is tough, but because our fallen human nature tends to warp love. Love at its purest is closest to God. (C.S. Lewis's The Four Loves is a wonderful look at God as love, or love as God.)
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