2 IN THE BEGINNING…
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. (Gen 1:1-2)
2.1 THE LAWS OF FORM AND THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE
If you speak English, you have heard the first two sentences in the Book of Genesis. You may or may not have wondered what they really mean, but you probably never thought that they were mathematical statements. There has been much commentary on exactly what “the earth was without form, and void” means, but it is our contention that, in and around 1968, George Spenser-Brown (GSB) when he wrote, “Call the space cloven by any distinction, together with the entire contents of the space, the form of the distinction.” So a space without a distinction is formless and void.
The simplest distinction that can be drawn is a circle on a plane. In Proverbs 8:22, Wisdom describes how the CoTU did this, “When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth.” In this context, a compass is an instrument for drawing a circle. Some translations render this as “when he drew a circle on the deep.”
As we will outline, Forms leads directly to three kinds of numbers: Real Integers, Imaginary Integers, and Complementary Integers. This leads inexorably to all of mathematics, number theory, and computer science. It, however requires something on which to write or mark. Is there a theory that starts the same way a Forms, but results in the physical universe?
I’ve heard so many takes on Genesis 1:1-2 from so many different angles, yet still there’s a new way of looking at it I’ve never heard of before. And the mathematical viewpoint you presented was one of the coolest I’ve ever heard. Thanks!