Re: theistic-friendly science

Moorad Alexanian (alexanian@UNCWIL.EDU)
Sun, 11 Jan 1998 11:06:27 -0500 (EST)

At 05:21 PM 1/9/98 -0500, George Murphy wrote:
>Moorad Alexanian wrote:
>
>> Mathematics is a human invention. Of course, it my be directly linked to our
>> being created in the image of God, but the connection is not clear to us
>> humans. I grant you that God created spacetime and "everything" in it.
>> However, I do not know how God created the number "pi" since that has to do
>> with non existing perfect circles.
>
> How about (pi)^2 = 6 x [1/1 + 1/4 + 1/9 + 1/16 + ....]?
> Or (pi)/2 = (2x2x4x4x6x6 ...)/(3x3x5x5...)?
> Or e^[2(pi)i] = 1 ?
>
>In fact, all of our theoretical science
>> is a over idealizations of reality.
>
> No, it is a search for the underlying math pattern of the world
>- which pattern is God's creation. There are many different math
>systems (as the discovery of non-Euclidean geometries showed) but we
>know of only this one which is "embodied". The universe is rational but
>is God's free creation. This is what Torrance calls "the doctrine of
>the contingent rationality of the universe."
> I think Plato was right - God is always doing geometry. But
>that's not all God does.

Dear George,

I have no doubt that there is an underlying math pattern which attests to
the rationality of nature that is "explained" by the "hypothesis" of an
Intelligent Designer. Non theists have no such explanation. It is
self-evident to me that such a fundamental explanation will never come from
science--science will always have to presuppose the rationality of nature.
God is the Creator, the Creator is God.

Take care,

Moorad