Thursday
Sep152005
Is God a Mathematician???
Thursday, September 15, 2005 
Originally Posted by Rachel Hensey
Answer: NO.
It is true that God created the universe which is perfect in every way. The universe is without a doubt mathematically correct. Many people would argue that because God is the creator and the universe is mathematically correct then God is a mathematician. However, the definition of a mathematician is someone who studies how things work. Since God is all knowing and already knows how everything works, there is no need for him to study. There is nothing for him to solve. Thus, God is above mathematics. He is NOT a mathematician.
Reader Comments (3)
After all, God is master of all things...[gasp]...is (S)he not?
If this Book exists somewhere, do you think God wrote it? I certainly do.
To your argument that God is not a mathematician, I offer two rebuttals:
1. A mathematician builds on the work of previous mathematicians - e.g. cites theorems already proven, in order to prove a larger theorem. There are, however, "theorems without proof," properly called axioms. Maybe the axioms came from God? (Perhaps the fact that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points is a result of how he separated the heavens and the earth at the beginning of time....) And maybe God did create the integers, as Kronecker claimed.
2. God's lack of need to study math does not preclude him from being a mathematician. (Did you ever have an annoying friend in high school who never studied but got 100s on all their tests?) I would wager that God's math is much more complete than ours, and includes methods for solving those pesky systems of non-linear differential equations! And if we saw His mathematics, then next to His, our human math would look like fumblings in the dark.