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ARGUMENT FROM MATHEMATICS

1. Mathematical concepts arise from the aesthetic impulse in humans and have no causal connection to the physical world,

2. It would be surprising to find that what arises from the aesthetic impulse in humans and has no causal connection to the physical world should be significantly effective in physics.

3. The laws of nature can be formulated as mathematical descriptions which are often significantly effective in physics.

4. Therefore, it is surprising that the laws of nature can be formulated as mathematical descriptions that are often significantly effective in physics.

The Stunningly Elegant Mathematical Structure Of The Physical Universe

1. A great deal of mathematics in science cannot be physically realised.

2. This answer still doesn't explain why the physical universe has such a stunningly elegant mathematical structure.

MATHEMATICAL ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

1. If God does not exist, the applicability of mathematics is just a happy coincidence.

2. But the applicability of mathematics is not just a happy coincidence.

3. Therefore, God exists.

On Naturalism (Atheism)
Why Can't The Applicability Of Mathematics Be A Happy Coincidence?

Naturalism (atheism) cannot accept the applicability of mathematics being a just a happy coincidence because of its massive improbability.
The idea that this physical universe should be imbued with this complex mathematical structure that makes science possible cries out for some sort of explanation and on naturalism (atheism) there just isn't any explanation. Whereas theism can easily explain it.

The more the naturalist has to posit to happy coincidences that are so incredible in probabilities the less plausible his worldview becomes.
It shows that his worldview is explanatorily impoverished and is explanatorily deficient. A worldview that is more robust in explanatory power is a superior worldview.

Another example would be the fine-tuning:
The fine-tuning is also very similar to the applicability of mathematics in both cases you have this incredibly improbable situation that cries out for an explanation and yet by the nature of the case, naturalism is just explanatorily impoverished. In this regard it cannot explain it, where as theism can.

How Is Naturalism Incoherent?

It's a materialist view that asserts the natural world is all there is - “There's natural stuff, and physical laws, and everything that concerns us boils down to these two.”
The problem is that physical laws, being mathematical entities, are not material but abstract. So this view isn't materialistic after all, and the natural world is not all there is:
We have got a bifurcated reality composed of natural stuff and mathematical laws, a bifurcation which will prove to be problematic in its own right.

The argument from the applicability of mathematics is especially relevant here. As i mentioned above the bifurcated view of the world, comprising a material realm of physical obiects and an abstract realm of mathematical laws. One of the deepest problems of naturalism is to explain how these two independent realms of reality relate and come into contact with each other. Theism offers a ready solution to this problem.

[khalidkhatri]

"The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure (and, one might add, poor) fiction. To call it science-fiction would besmirch the name of science."
- John Lennox
Mathematician and Bioethicist

[IncisiveThoughts]

ARGUMENT FROM MATHEMATICS

1. Mathematical concepts arise from the aesthetic impulse in humans and have no causal connection to the physical world,

2. It would be surprising to find that what arises from the aesthetic impulse in humans and has no causal connection to the physical world should be significantly effective in physics.

3. The laws of nature can be formulated a mathematical descriptions which are often significantly effective in physics.

4. Therefore, it i surprising that the laws of nature can be formulated as mathematical descriptions that are often significantly effective in physics.

The Stunningly Elegant
Mathematical Structure Of The
Physical Universe

1. A great deal of mathematics in science cannot be physically realised.

2. This answer still doesn't explain why the physical universe has such a stunningly elegant mathematical structure.

MATHEMATICAL ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

1. If God does not exist, the applicability of mathematics is just a happy coincidence.

2. But the applicability of mathematics is not just a happy coincidence.

3. Therefore, God exists.

On Naturalism (Atheism)
Why Can't The Applicability Of Mathematics Be A Happy
Coincidence?

Naturalism (atheism) cannot accept the applicability of mathematics being a just a happy coincidence because of its massive improbability.
The idea that this physical universe should be imbued with this complex mathematical structure that makes science possible cries out for some sort of explanation and on naturalism (atheism) there just isn't any explanation. Whereas theism can easily explain it.

The more the naturalist has to posit to happy coincidences that are so incredible in probabilities the less plausible his worldview becomes.
It shows that his worldview is explanatorily impoverished and is explanatorily deficient. A worldview that is more robust in explanatory power is a superior worldview.

[Johnathan-kz]

Intresting but mathematical intelliblity implying fine tuning or not

[incisivethoughts]

"The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics"
Galileo Galilei

[incisivethoughts]

"The search for the mathematical laws of nature was an act of devotion which would reveal the glory and grandeur of His handiwork.
Mathematical knowledge, the truth about God's design of the universe, was as sacrosanct as any line of Scripture.."
Morris Kline
Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times

[incisivethoughts]

"The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics."
Johannes Kepler
Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (Book by Morris Kline)