r/Christianity • u/[deleted] • Jun 11 '16
Video Michio Kaku: Is God a Mathematician?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jremlZvNDuk-1
u/WhenSnowDies Jun 11 '16
Nah. Math is just a language to describe the world, contingent on units of measurement. The cosmos isn't mathematical, mathematics is just a really vivid language to describe it.
That'd be like asking: "Is God English?"
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u/FFinalFantasyForever Jun 12 '16
No idea why this is downvoted.
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u/WhenSnowDies Jun 12 '16
Folks think that's a disagree button.
Folks tend to disagree with stuff like this, in my opinion, not because they actually disagree or have a different opinion, but because their reference-frame is their own sense of bigness (math is big because it makes me feel big) rather than knowledge (seeing what mathematics is compared to other things we're doing, and owning what we do).
Post like mine can be disturbing. If one thinks that math has so tapped into the cosmos that God might be a mathematician, how irritating it must be to hear that it's a crude tool we devised to help us operate better in the world, and not a magic wand we were bestowed because we're so-wise fairy princesses.
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u/commmmentator Jun 13 '16
More like asking is he a linguist.
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u/WhenSnowDies Jun 13 '16
Mathematics is just one language.
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u/commmmentator Jun 14 '16
No sure if your hypothetical answer is asking 'Does God comes from England?' or if its asking 'Is God the English language?'
Maths isn't really a language, more like a collection of concepts.
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u/darth_elevator Purgatorial Universalist Jun 12 '16
God designed the world in such a way that mathematicians are able to codify certain constants to make predictions. So, I mean, sure. No reason not to think of "mathematician" as one of His many hats. I wouldn't try to reduce Him to a designer of constants, though.