2007-06-01 17:12:28 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Very interesting question. Math is the framework of all living things, planets, galaxies, time and is evidence of a creator. Otherwise, if things just happened by chance all numbers should be random and meaningless.
2007-06-01 17:38:37 · answer #1 · answered by Mitch R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are talking about Platonic ideals, right? The idea that all of mathematics actually exists in some pure realm that we are gradually discovering. And your question is, how could that pure realm 'just happen'? It's like when people wonder how the Big Bang could "just happen", and from that assume that there must be a supernatural creator.
But your question is deeper, because if there is supernatural creator, wouldn't it have needed mathematics in order to design our universe? Did the supernatural creator have to first create even the pure realm of mathematics first? And if so, how could the creator of done that: without even the tools of mathematics, it created the pure realm that could hold mathematics?
These are very fun questions. But I hope you can see that they are also absurd questions.
2007-06-01 17:25:53 · answer #2 · answered by Jim L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm.. "to be" hmmm...
Actually, mathematics does not exist anyplace but in the human mind.. it is abstract thought and does not have physical form...
mathematics is a language that is used to explain many things in the world in a precise manner with it's rigorous syntax and vocabulary...
The really nice thing about mathematics is that if you forget some of the relationships you can figure them out again using lower mathematics...
Math came to be because people studied the relationships between many things (like physical shapes and area, etc) and they needed a way to explain what they saw in a precise manner...
Calculus was invented to help do complex/tedious mathematics in a precise yet quick manner...
I think that God pointed some people to invent newer forms of mathematics in order to help us live better.
2007-06-01 17:32:22 · answer #3 · answered by ♥Tom♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mathematics applies human terms to natural definitions. Then it connects the terms in the way that they are connected in nature.
2007-06-01 17:29:14 · answer #4 · answered by Sacred Chao 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It didn't. Math is a natural byproduct of existing in a dimensional universe. Without height, width, length and time, there would be no math.
How the universe just "happened to be" is another matter entirely.
2007-06-01 17:28:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
People needed a way to count debts and payments.
Read Fermat's Enigma.
2007-06-01 17:16:25 · answer #6 · answered by Kate 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was developed separately by both Greek and Aztec intellectuals. OK?
2007-06-01 17:17:03 · answer #7 · answered by scrambled_egg81 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, when you have two apples, then you have two apples. If someone gives you two more apples, then you "just happen" to now have four apples.
Just happened that way.
2007-06-01 17:22:14 · answer #8 · answered by Jess H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think your confusing question is in the wrong section.
2007-06-01 17:16:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
men used their Godgiven intelligence
2007-06-01 17:16:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋