God's Existence Is Proven by Several Mathematical Theorems within Standard Physics

[JamesRedford]

@Andy7

Welcome to the forum @JamesRedford . Regarding the OP. Indeed, there are people who claim “if I had a mathematical proof of the existence of God, then I would believe in Him.” I am not one of them. I have a seed of faith in a great God. He can work with that. I am also skeptical of the sincerity of this claim. If we really think about it, we have to take many things on faith. To start with, mathematics is not the cut-and-dried structure that many people think it is. This became more apparent with the work of Kurt Gödel - Wikipedia and others in the late 19th and early 20th century on the foundations of mathematics. Having said this, I think mathematics has proven to be an extremely valuable tool with which to describe reality.

Here is a good blog posting by Professor Thomas Vidick (Thomas Vidick - home) at
Cal Tech university: What it is that we do | MyCQstate

As far as the Standard Model Theory of Everything, I am not qualified to comment on this, and I think few are. Here, it’s good to do some due diligence to determine possible philosophical implications of the Theory by experts who understand it deeply. A good rule of thumb is to be skeptical about extraordinary claims promoted by a relatively small group of people. To start with, it is a good idea to determine the educational background of those who claim to be experts. That is an honest question that deserves an honest answer.

Regarding Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems as they relate to this matter, they are actually apodictic proofs of God’s existence, since they apply only to finitary logical procedures. Once allow an infinite number of axioms, then they become quite solvable. (As logician Gerhard Gentzen proved in 1936 using using transfinite induction. Just as one does not have to individually count the natural numbers up to infinity to prove that they must be infinite, one can “look ahead” to prove that Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems actually require existence to be infinite.)

“Ah!”, some might say, “Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems only apply to axiomatic systems with the expressive power of Peano arithmetic or greater.” Yet essentially the entirety of physics is expressed in Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory, which certainly has greater expressive power than mere Peano arithmetic. I don’t see any physicists attempting to reformulate all of physics in terms of Presburger arithmetic.

Then if all of standard physics and mathematics has ever proclaimed the existence and glory of God, why are not the masses told of this?

Oh, naïve one. Where is the all-ages dismembering gang-rape Hell eternal that humans so adore to come from if we all agree that God not only exists (as surely as the statement that 2+2 = 4 on the real line), but exists in an immutable form which we must conform ourselves to?

Best to exist in ape-hell for eternity than to come into glorious Knowledge. That is how the internal psychological ape within humans wants it.

For much more on that, see:

• James Redford, “Societal Sadomasochism”, Social Science Research Network (SSRN), July 4, 2021 (orig. pub. May 29, 2018), 4 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.4500656, 【魚拓】http://archive.org/download/Societal-Sadomasochism/Redford-Societal-Sadomasochism.pdf , https://archive.org/download/Societal-Sadomasochism/Redford-Societal-Sadomasochism.pdf , FreezePage .

Original Sin, it is called—also called Total Depravity. Though Original Sin is not due to Adam and Eve. Rather, it is due to the horrors of natural evolution.