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A common application of decision theory to the belief in God is Pascal's wager, published by Blaise Pascal in his 1669 work Pensées.The application is a defense of Christianity stating that "If God does not exist, the Atheist loses little by believing in him and gains little by not believing.
John Carson Lennox (born 7 November 1943) is a Northern Irish mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian apologist originally from Northern Ireland. He has written many books on religion, ethics, the relationship between science and God (like his books, Has Science Buried God and Can Science Explain Everything), and has had public debates with atheists including Richard Dawkins and Christopher ...
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History is a 2005 anthology, edited by Stephen Hawking, of "excerpts from thirty-one of the most important works in the history of mathematics." [1]
Gödel's ontological proof is a formal argument by the mathematician Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) for the existence of God.The argument is in a line of development that goes back to Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109).
According to Stephen Skinner, the study of sacred geometry has its roots in the study of nature, and the mathematical principles at work therein. [5] Many forms observed in nature can be related to geometry; for example, the chambered nautilus grows at a constant rate and so its shell forms a logarithmic spiral to accommodate that growth without changing shape.
"and [do] not wear images of the gods on rings" [176] "Fear of defiling them by wearing them." [176] "One should not have the teaching and knowledge of the gods quickly at hand and visible [for everyone], nor communicate them to the masses." [176] "and pour libations for the gods from a drinking cup's handle [the 'ear']" [176]
One driving element was the belief that mathematics provided the key to understanding the created order of nature, frequently justified by Plato's Timaeus and the biblical passage (in the Book of Wisdom) that God had ordered all things in measure, and number, and weight. [165]
Proofs from THE BOOK is a book of mathematical proofs by Martin Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler.The book is dedicated to the mathematician Paul Erdős, who often referred to "The Book" in which God keeps the most elegant proof of each mathematical theorem.