I don't personally believe that anything can prove a God, so therefore the title is just an eye catcher. But in my opinion, math is a very big indicator of a God.
Math and science. Science helps us humans to explain the natural world, but it cannot help us explain things that are outside of the natural world. How do we know that there is something outside of our natural world? Well it is pretty obvious that the natural world had a beginning, (whether or not you believe in the multiverse might I add). And in order for something to have a beginning, it has to have a cause. And in order for something to create the natural world, it has to have supernatural abilities. So we do know there is something outside of our natural world. Supernatural would be the definition of that. So, science cannot tell us if there is anything supernatural, but it can explain the natural world.
Usually when people are talking about God, they are talking about the supernatural (above nature), omniscient (all-knowing), omnipresent (exists everywhere), omnipotent (can do anything). So, what is math, and what does it have to do with God?
Math is about numbers, and information about those numbers, and ways that these numbers connect with each other. But where do we find math, in the natural world? We can’t see math, we can’t touch math, we can’t taste math, we can’t smell math, and we can’t hear math. Math is only in the mind. We find math simply by thinking about it and finding more and more things out.
Math also explains things. Math can explain things varying from simple counting to the movement of planets. For any “thing” you can think of, there is a bunch of math that explains what's going on, even down to the atomic level. So, if math is only in our minds, yet it explains the natural world, then where does it come from?
There are 2 possibilities:
- Math is something that humans invented to explain what we observe in the natural world.
- We discovered math because it controls the universe.
The first option would define math a natural thing, and the second would define math as a supernatural thing.
Here is why the second option is correct:
Math contains infinite information. There are an infinite number of numbers, each with their own individual properties. And there are an infinite number of numbers in between those numbers. And we continue to discover things.
Pi, which is the number that explains the area of a circle. Pi has an infinite number of digits that we can discover by using calculations. If we were just making this stuff up, we could just make Pi be whatever we want it to be, but we can’t do that because we know that that is not true.
We know that all this information is out there somewhere, but it cannot be inside our physical universe because our universe is finite, and math is infinite. That means math contains every possible combination of numbers. If we use numbers as code for letters, then math contains every possible combination of letters as well.
This means that every book that has ever been written already exists encoded in math somewhere, and in fact every book that could possibly ever be written already exists in math. And if we use numbers as code for particles and their locations, then you could theoretically say that there is an exact copy of our universe encoded in math, but there are even more things in math, so that is why math cannot be contained just within our universe.
There is also a lot of evidence showing that math has a designer. A great example of this is the Mandelbrot Set. The equation looks like this:
z=z(squared) + c
Now this little equation makes a very interesting shape when you graph it in the complex plane. People have analyzed this shape and have found some very scary things about it.
The amazing thing about the Mandelbrot Set is that you can keep zooming in infinitely and keep finding new things, like more copies of the mandelbrot set shown here:
You can zoom in infinitely and find new and different shapes, and patterns, sometimes ones that no human has ever seen before in this one shape. This is why it is so scary. We didn’t invent this because we discovered it by accident, but we didn’t discover it in our universe, because it has infinite complexity so it can’t possibly be in our universe, because the universe doesn’t have infinites. We discovered it just by calculating it. So where did this thing come from?
Basic common sense would say that someone designed this, but no human designed it. Like we said:
- Math only exists in the mind so its origin must also be a mind.
- Math contains infinite information, so this mind must be all knowing.
- Math controls the universe and must also be all powerful.
- Math is beyond and outside of our natural world, so this mind must be supernatural.
And right here, we have just described God.
Now, I am aware that there are significant logical leaps in the argument presented, but I think it makes a good case.
What do you all think?
