Pythagoras

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Study Mathematics to find God.
"One of Pythagoras' beliefs was that the essence of being is number. Thus, being relies on stability of all things that create the universe. Things like health relied on a stable proportion of elements; too much or too little of one thing causes an imbalance that makes a being unhealthy. Pythagoras viewed thinking as the calculating with the idea numbers. When combined with the Folk theories, the philosophy evolves into a belief that Knowledge of the essence of being can be found in the form of numbers. If this is taken a step further, one can say that because mathematics is an unseen essence, the essence of being is an unseen characteristic that can be encountered by the study of mathematics."

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500 BC

"Father of vast eternity, divine,
O mighty Saturn, various speech is thine:
Blossom of earth and of the starry skies,
Husband of Rhea, and Prometheus wife.
Obstetric nature, venerable root,
From which the various forms of being shoot;
No parts peculiar can thy pow'r enclose,
Diffused throough all, from which the world arose."

I don't understand the point of your posts. It sounds a bit like you are hinting at a "Goldilocks" type of argument for a god (everything is 'just right' for our existence) but I don't want to jump to conclusions. Could you clarify?

Thanks.

To find God. You need to study the number "e"

"Since e is transcendental, and therefore irrational, its value cannot be given exactly as a finite or eventually repeating decimal. The numerical value of e truncated to 20 decimal places is

2.71828?18284?59045?23536…. "

You atheists seem to be unable to find God. You are looking in all the wrong places.

I think you are just very lazy and want us to show you where to look. OK

You will find God in the number "e", it will reveal to you where God is hiding.

I have tried to tell you where God is, but you don't want to listen to simple words.
So I'll give you the more complicated version.

Also, Look at the Google Logo.... 01101010

There are lots of irrational numbers (eg: pi, square root of 2, etc). No one has ever found a pattern in the occurence of prime numbers either. What's so special about e?

More importantly, what does the existence of irrational numbers have to do with the existence of a god?

You atheists seem to be unable to find God. You are looking in all the wrong places.

Hehe, we can't find god because we're not looking AT ALL. We're not looking because the search is futile.

See, there's the rub. We humans are champions at finding meaning wherever we look. A cloud looks like god, a tortilla looks like god, Google has a bunch of 1's and 0's in its logo (not sure what THAT has to do with anything).... We humans love proving to ourselves that we were right. We can find evidence to back up ANY argument, no matter how foolish it may sound, ESPECIALLY when it comes to arguments for the existence of god - he's an enigma, he's all-powerful, he's too complex for comprehension, etc etc... Throw in the fact that billions of people DESPERATELY need to believe in him for some reason, and voila, you've got yourself convinced. Easy as pie! We even do it without thinking about it. But you see, just because you're convinced, doesn't mean you're right. It also doesn't mean you'll be able to convince anyone else.

I thought this was a Mathematics thread. Could someone explain the relevance of the poem?

Cheers,

Exactly, Wendy.

Pattern seeking is an evolved survival trait. We're so good at it we often see patterns where there are none (apophenia, pareidolia). The thing to remember is that correlation doesn't prove causality; just because A follows B doesn't mean A caused B.