Loom of God, The by Pickover Clifford A

Author:Pickover, Clifford A
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781402774416
Publisher: Sterling Publishing
Published: 2010-08-16T16:00:00+00:00

In this chapter, as in others, we’ve seen the prominent role that integers play in religion. However, the Urantia religion appears to attribute significance to multidigit numbers (e.g., 5,342,482,337,666), more so than any other religion with which I am familiar. It is clear that since the time of Pythagoras humans have attributed to integers certain properties and features usually attributed only to God. According to Philip Davis and Reuben Hersh, authors of Descartes’ Dream, the religious philosophies of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam suggest that God is independent of the world, and he will persist even when the world has come to an end. Many mathematicians also believe that mathematics is independent of the world, that it exists prior to and apart from the world, and when the world ends, mathematics will still exist. Moreover, Davis and Hersh note:

Insofar as Platonic mathematics is a rival of an eternal, all knowing, omnipotent God, it is not an accident that many people turn to mathematics, consciously or unconsciously, as a substitute for religion. There is a strong craving for permanence, for certainty in a chaotic world, and many people prefer to look for it within a mathematical or scientific rather than a religious context. They are, perhaps, not aware that underlying both mathematics and religion there must be a foundation of faith which the individual must himself supply.

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