The Puzzle of Mathematics

About this episode

This episode explores the relationship between mathematics and the creation, highlighting how mathematical principles reflect the work of a Creator.

When a clothing manufacturer selects a high-quality fabric, he is usually concerned enough to make sure that good workmanship goes into the final product. In a similar way, the fabric of the creation tells us a lot about its Creator. Mathematics, more than anything else, reflects the fabric of the creation.Many scientists today are puzzled by the fact that the material world they study can be accurately described in mathematical equations. The falling of a stone or a feather, even the colors of a rainbow, all correspond to mathematical formulae. Even chaos has a mathematical description. One Nobel physicist was moved to write a paper entitled, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.”Because mathematics so precisely describes reality, we can send a space probe billions of miles, on perfect target. Mathematics allow us to receive the pictures it returns to Earth using a transmitter no more powerful than a five-watt light bulb. As one science writer put it, scientists use mathematics as a wonderful gift but they have no idea why it works so well.Of course, creation scientists don't wonder why math works. They know that the creation is the work of an…

People in this episode

Hosts: Ian T. Taylor, Mark W. Cadwallader

Topics covered

• mathematics
• creation
• science
• Christianity
• orderly Creator
• fabric of creation

Keywords

• mathematics
• creation
• science
• Nobel physicist
• Genesis
• fabric of creation
• orderly Creator

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences, Genesis 1:31

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