Nick_A wrote:Simone Weil's brother André Weil was a great mathematician and peer of Einstein. He wrote:
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
From this point of view the entirety of math is in the process of being discovered even though we are being met by resistance with the help of our inventions. Yes, the Devil is in the details.
I believe if I am not mistaken that Immanuel Kant said that if God did not exist then we would still be forced to invent Him.
Philosophically speaking, the 4 classic proofs of God pretty much ensure that God must exist or else you must live with an irreconcilable paradox in your own philosophy.
That God does exist and chooses to remain obscure and isolated from us just tells me He is shy.
I would not doubt that God occasionally meets some extraordinary human and then cannot resist introducing Himself to them.
Moses is the earliest example that we have any quasi historical proof of.
Then Elijah.
Then Jesus if you believe all that Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Jude, and Peter have told us about Him.
Most recently Constantine The Great.
It really has been a long time as far as we can tell.
There are probably others though that we don't know of.
I do not believe God has anything to do with math however.
Math is just a simple counting system that humans have invented to keep track of sabre toothed lions and tapirs.
Math is just a lot of definitions piled high on top of each other.