science supports God's existence

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Thinking about scientists in the past has made me think about something in nature that always deeply impressed me. How is it that math so nicely models the world? Not only can we use math to model things after the fact, but merely manipulating mathematical symbols according to certain rules leads to incredible predictions about what we do in fact find in nature. An amazing example of this is Einstein's special relativity. A couple postulates followed by exploring their (mathematical) entailment led to the incredible predictions behind time dilation and length contraction as well as mass-energy equivalence. These were subsequently thoroughly tested decades later. How to explain this?

 

On the atheist viewpoint, I don't know that you could answer this question. It is all an incredible coincidence. There is no reasonable expectation, a priori, of finding such tight order and predictability. You certainly couldn't expect to find that abstract mathematics could be used to both model and predict how nature behaves. On the other hand, from the Christian point of view none  of this should be surprising. Genesis 1, Romans 1:20 and a multitude of other such verses suggest that God created nature in an orderly fashion. God explains the connection. This makes it all the more surprising to me that modern scientists are so recalcitrant to see God in nature. Great scientists in the past were not so hesitant and they had less reason to suspect something supernatural. The further things are probed, the more amazing some of these discoveries are. The connection between pen and paper (or computer) mathematical predictions and what is actually found in experiment I think at least should give people pause.

[nebula]

I agree!

 

When I brought a point like this (about math) up in a forum consisting of scientist and science-minded people, the replies given were obviously their best attempts at avoiding the logical conclusion the the mere existence of "math" and how it works points to a Creator.

[Guest]

I agree!

 

When I brought a point like this (about math) up in a forum consisting of scientist and science-minded people, the replies given were obviously their best attempts at avoiding the logical conclusion the the mere existence of "math" and how it works points to a Creator.

 

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[jerryR34]

This is an argument from incredulity.  You are saying you can't imagine how math could model the universe so God exists.  Also, it seems to be backward.  Math is just a measure of the physical properties of the universe, it is bound by the universe.  It is like being impressed that the water in a mud puddle fits the ground it is bound by perfectly.

[Fez]

This is an argument from incredulity.  You are saying you can't imagine how math could model the universe so God exists.  Also, it seems to be backward.  Math is just a measure of the physical properties of the universe, it is bound by the universe.  It is like being impressed that the water in a mud puddle fits the ground it is bound by perfectly.

Yes isn't that amazing! God created the forces that make it so, and even today we cannot truly explain gravity. We serve an awesome God!

[Enoch2021]

 

This is an argument from incredulity.  You are saying you can't imagine how math could model the universe so God exists.  Also, it seems to be backward.  Math is just a measure of the physical properties of the universe, it is bound by the universe.  It is like being impressed that the water in a mud puddle fits the ground it is bound by perfectly.

Yes isn't that amazing! God created the forces that make it so, and even today we cannot truly explain gravity. We serve an awesome God!

 

 

Hey Fez,

 

Gravity......You'll open up a whole can of worms with talk like that LOL.

 

 

Also I have a Just a couple of questions for all who view.

 

Ok, maybe this is too simple minded but let me just put this out there just from a personal standpoint.....

 

After Basic Training/AIT where you just learn common skills.....the rest of my Combat Arms Career, roughly 98%... was KNOWING YOUR ENEMY.  Just a relentless day after day studying tactics and strategies/logistics of the Enemy.  Back in those days it was Mother Russia.

 

I guess the principle never left me....it was a Traumatic Experience @ Times LOL.  Having said that:

 

What was the First Sin in the Bible: 

 

(Genesis 3:1) "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?"

 

(Genesis 3:4) "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:"

 

 

So the obvious #1 Tactic (among many, but for brevity) is to first CREATE DOUBT and then CHANGE THE WORD OF GOD.

 

Moreover from Daniel Chapter 10:  (Daniel 10:20) "Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come."

There is a dialogue with the Angel Gabriel concerning his fight with the Prince of Persia the needing the Angel Michael's help to get through.  Now thay're not talking about the Human Prince's (Persia and Grecia) but Principalities and Powers, Right?

 

 

Soooo, I'm not saying the evil one doesn't attack Joe Coffee and Betty Breadmaker but If you were in the DIRE Predicament that he's in, just from a Tactical Standpoint to set up the End of Days and following the Modus Operandi ( Create Doubt and Change GOD'S WORD), what would you do?.....

 

Attack:

 

A.  The Satellite Repairman

B.  Jack the Walmart Manager

C.  WORLD Powers/Establishments/Seminaries/Universities

 

??

 

And my final question:  What "Establishment" on the Planet Earth attempts to Cast the Most DOUBT of the Existence of GOD Bar None???  I'll give you a Hint, it starts with "S" and ends in "E".

 

as for the OP:

 

“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. ”

Nikola Tesla

 

Nikola Tesla a home boy, my GrandMother was born in Croatia.  Hail to the Motherland!!  LOL

[alphaparticle]

This is an argument from incredulity.  You are saying you can't imagine how math could model the universe so God exists.  Also, it seems to be backward.  Math is just a measure of the physical properties of the universe, it is bound by the universe.  It is like being impressed that the water in a mud puddle fits the ground it is bound by perfectly.

 

It's an argument from design and if I had to formalize it I would have it something like this:

 

1. It is highly unlikely to randomly find the world (and by world I mean everything that exists physically) highly ordered. Out of all of the configurations in which the world could be found, finding it highly ordered is going to be much more unlikely than an unordered one.

 

It is much more likely to find the world ordered if it is not the product of random blind chance, but rather the design of an intelligence.

 

2. The world is highly ordered to the point that we can use abstract mathematics to accurately describe physical reality. We are able to model and make predictions to incredibly precision and accuracy on every scale through this means.

 

3. Point 2 makes the world we actually observe much more likely on God's existence than on atheism. Therefore it's at least reasonable to expect an intelligent designer is behind the existence of the world.

 

Though I wasn't intending to make a formal argument in my OP per se, maybe for clarification that will help a bit. Mostly though, my main point is that it is really, very amazing and interesting to find things so discoverable, predictable, from the quantum world (yes I am aware the predictions there are probabilistic), to biological scales, to astronomical scales. And, every time we dig deeper into the order, things become more unified, symmetric and arguably beautiful. The fact we can use math to describe all this, and make predictions about what exists physically, speaks to just how tight the organization is. It is wonderful, and at least mysterious, whether or not you believe in God.

[alphaparticle]

 

 

This is an argument from incredulity.  You are saying you can't imagine how math could model the universe so God exists.  Also, it seems to be backward.  Math is just a measure of the physical properties of the universe, it is bound by the universe.  It is like being impressed that the water in a mud puddle fits the ground it is bound by perfectly.

Yes isn't that amazing! God created the forces that make it so, and even today we cannot truly explain gravity. We serve an awesome God!

 

 

Hey Fez,

 

Gravity......You'll open up a whole can of worms with talk like that LOL.

 

 

Also I have a Just a couple of questions for all who view.

 

Ok, maybe this is too simple minded but let me just put this out there just from a personal standpoint.....

 

After Basic Training/AIT where you just learn common skills.....the rest of my Combat Arms Career, roughly 98%... was KNOWING YOUR ENEMY.  Just a relentless day after day studying tactics and strategies/logistics of the Enemy.  Back in those days it was Mother Russia.

 

I guess the principle never left me....it was a Traumatic Experience @ Times LOL.  Having said that:

 

What was the First Sin in the Bible: 

 

(Genesis 3:1) "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?"

 

(Genesis 3:4) "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:"

 

 

So the obvious #1 Tactic (among many, but for brevity) is to first CREATE DOUBT and then CHANGE THE WORD OF GOD.

 

Moreover from Daniel Chapter 10:  (Daniel 10:20) "Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come."

There is a dialogue with the Angel Gabriel concerning his fight with the Prince of Persia the needing the Angel Michael's help to get through.  Now thay're not talking about the Human Prince's (Persia and Grecia) but Principalities and Powers, Right?

 

 

Soooo, I'm not saying the evil one doesn't attack Joe Coffee and Betty Breadmaker but If you were in the DIRE Predicament that he's in, just from a Tactical Standpoint to set up the End of Days and following the Modus Operandi ( Create Doubt and Change GOD'S WORD), what would you do?.....

 

Attack:

 

A.  The Satellite Repairman

B.  Jack the Walmart Manager

C.  WORLD Powers/Establishments/Seminaries/Universities

 

??

 

And my final question:  What "Establishment" on the Planet Earth attempts to Cast the Most DOUBT of the Existence of GOD Bar None???  I'll give you a Hint, it starts with "S" and ends in "E".

 

as for the OP:

 

“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. ”

Nikola Tesla

 

Nikola Tesla a home boy, my GrandMother was born in Croatia.  Hail to the Motherland!!  LOL

 

While I understand that the scientific establishment is not exactly pro-God these days, that doesn't negate the fact that the contents of scientific knowledge support the existence of a supernatural Creator. As far as Tesla, he was profoundly mistaken about several things. I'm pro experiment, entirely, but it seems the most progress is made with balance. The list of stuff predicted from messing with math is impressively long (from anti-matter to time dilation)... it's honestly surprising it can be done at all. That is one fact about the world that always amazed me when I was an atheist. The interplay there between abstract theories and experimental findings is very powerful.

[Enoch2021]

 

 

 

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As far as Tesla, he was profoundly mistaken about several things

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Go ahead and list them.  Then list what he was Right about and we'll compare and contrast.

 

 

The list of stuff predicted from messing with math is impressively long (from anti-matter to time dilation)...

 

I'll bet the List from predicting Absolutely Zilch is even Longer.  It's also a Human Construct/Convention and in most cases is Domain Dependent/Specific.  However, having said that, It has it's place and we wouldn't be where we are without it.

 

Speaking of Numbers, the most striking patterns IMHO are Fibonacci Sequences/ Spirals in Nature Living and Non-Living.  It's absolutely Breath Taking and again, IMHO; one of the Signatures of GOD. 

 

 

That is one fact about the world that always amazed me when I was an atheist. The interplay there between abstract theories and experimental findings is very powerful.

 

Agreed

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As far as Tesla, he was profoundly mistaken about several things

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Go ahead and list them.  Then list what he was Right about and we'll compare and contrast.

 

 

The list of stuff predicted from messing with math is impressively long (from anti-matter to time dilation)...

 

I'll bet the List from predicting Absolutely Zilch is even Longer.  It's also a Human Construct/Convention and in most cases is Domain Dependent/Specific.  However, having said that, It has it's place and we wouldn't be where we are without it.

 

Speaking of Numbers, the most striking patterns IMHO are Fibonacci Sequences/ Spirals in Nature Living and Non-Living.  It's absolutely Breath Taking and again, IMHO; one of the Signatures of GOD. 

 

 

That is one fact about the world that always amazed me when I was an atheist. The interplay there between abstract theories and experimental findings is very powerful.

 

Agreed

 

I don't want to get off on a Tesla tangent here (you are free to interpret my recalcitrance however you wish). I am not sure how that would really relate to the OP. If we agree that amazing things have been discovered through mathematic models that is really my only point here. There is no reason to expect that we can do that if atheism is true.