that the creator liked math
Math is hard!.............Barbie..........
Never trust an atom. They make up everything.
Those who do not know mathematics are doomed to repeat Calculus.
(old med school refrain)
I agree that mathematics is the language of the universe.
But—the fun question (that will really make your head hurt) is “why?”!
(One possible answer is that the universe is a hologram...)
Watch “The Code” I can’t remember if it’s on Netflix or Prime. Great show. Shows intelligent design in everything.
To be honest, Jackplanck, I did not read the entire article, but I have some replies to the idea of the ubiquity of Math in our lives. Rare are the moments in my life where I could say I was ‘enjoying’ Math as a topic or academic endeavor.
One was during the 1980’s, when for a short time, I studied to pass a Series 7 Exam. Series 7 License was needed to sell stocks and bonds. I loved the idea of puts and calls, being able to obtain control of precious metals or high quality equities. Once I understood the formula of margin calls, it was very interesting. Alas, my math was never quite good enough to pass the Fractional Transaction part of the test, but I still enjoyed trying, and learning something I never knew before.
Another instance where math facilitates communication would be in music.
Classical composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, who found an efficient method to write in multiple keys.
Bach was able to write in every key so successfully because mathematicians found better ways to calculate the 12 root of two.
This is related to the musical problem of dividing the octave into 2 equal intervals, which involves splitting sound waves into ratios rather than equal lengths.
This technique was illustrated for all when Bach composed
The Well Tempered Clavier (1722), his book of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys.
This method allowed popular music to modulate with greater ease than prior to the Baroque Period.
I am a physicist. Mathematics is a useful language wherever it is useful. But it isn’t everything. Otherwise great scientists wouldn’t be so wrong about everything outside their narrow fields of expertise.
Math and physics are useful only in the context of correct history. That is, HISTORY is preeminent to MATH.
The Bible is taken by me to be the authoritative account of the history that it recites.
With respect directly to math, the law of non-contradiction is assumed as a natural law of nature and cannot be independently proved (see Goedel’s Incompleteness Theorem). Without this law, logic fails (and hence the rest of math as well).
With respect to physics, a most egregious example is the age of the universe. The Bible works this out historically to be around 6-10,000 years. Denying this dating, many physicists pursue using logic and math only to “prove” a mythical multiverse to avoid self contradictions resulting from a “big bang”. Since, by definition, this multiverse cannot be tested, it is indistinguishable from magic.
Math and physics are correct because the Bible reveals a logical, rational Creator who desires that man “think His thoughts after Him”.
Math and physics are beautiful, consistent, and useful in the context of real history.
n.b. If you disagree with the Bible as inerrant and authoritative, that is a discussion for another time.