In Reply to: Re: Creation vs. Evolution posted by Carol (reposted) on August 21, 2004 at 14:16:17:
"Some of the most advanced theories in mathematics & physics suggest that even chance has a regularity & order like everything else we observe in nature. So chance is not really the random event it appears to be, and we see through the glass darkly."
Well, I think from God's point of view, it's "easy",...in the higher, heavenly, godly math, but not from man's point of view, which I think you rather refer to.
Before I joined TF, I was enrolled at the university in Berlin in the field of maths & then came across the name of Gödel & his findings were very dear to me (without being able to say or explain how he got there)...however the findings were enough for me to "turn my back on math" , in order to find rather the ultimate truth in the right religion.
Recently I came in a German magazine across the name of the american mathematician Gregory Chaitin.I made a little Google search & here's some of it...I doubt, that the contents of it nor that, what Gödel & others found is in line with your assertion.Sorry!!!!!!!
http://www.fortunecity.com/emachines/e11/86/randwalk.html
http://www.dc.uba.ar/people/profesores/becher/ns.html
a quote from the second link:
"This is particularly bad news for physicists on a quest for a complete and concise description of the Universe. Maths is the language of physics, so Chaitin's discovery implies there can never be a reliable "theory of everything", neatly summarising all the basic features of reality in one set of equations. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but even Steven Weinberg, a Nobel prizewinning physicist and author of Dreams of a Final Theory, has swallowed it. "We will never be sure that our final theory is mathematically consistent," he admits.
Chaitin's mathematical curse is not an abstract theorem or an impenetrable equation: it is simply a number. This number, which Chaitin calls Omega, is real, just as pi is real. But Omega is infinitely long and utterly incalculable. Chaitin has found that Omega infects the whole of mathematics, placing fundamental limits on what we can know. And Omega is just the beginning. There are even more disturbing numbers--Chaitin calls them Super-Omegas--that would defy calculation even if we ever managed to work Omega out. The Omega strain of incalculable numbers reveals that mathematics is not simply moth-eaten, it is mostly made of gaping holes. Anarchy, not order, is at the heart of the Universe."
a discourse by Chaitin:
http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~chaitin/bonn.html
(His website:
http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~chaitin/)