In Reply to: Mathematician demonstrates existence of God posted by Stats Nerd on October 31, 2006 at 22:12:01:
Math can't "prove" or "demonstrate" the existence or non-existance of God. We can only take into math what our pre-math understandings/interpretations/conclusions were. In it's simplest form, God exists = 1
God doesn't exist = 0
I can postulate that 0 + 1 = 1 therefore God exists.
I can also theorize 1 - 1 = 0 therefore God doesn't exist because God being the almighty omnipotent if he existed could never allow the negation of his existence. You'd have to agree to the assumption so that my formula can work.
I can further elaborate on complex formulae and calculate all I want, and the interpretation would still have to be based on what I took into the calculation. You'd still have to accpet some basic precepts of what God is for the formula to work.
To say math can "prove" Jesus and math can't be wrong reminds me of movies from the 50's where the men in white lab coats knew everything and couldn't wrong about anything because they were scientists, and scientists knew everything because they made the atom bomb. Or the 70's version that computers are omniscient. Whoever published that theory is trying to make math powerful enough to put God in a test tube.