The Mathematicians

 Einstein made a mistake in his calculations that he called "his greatest blunder." His calculations had indicated that the universe should be expanding. Einstein did not like that. He thought that the universe should be stable, as did all other physicists of his day. So he added a sign called lambda to his calculations that would show the universe to be stable. Later, when Hubble discovered that the universe was indeed expanding, Einstein judged his miscalculation as being "his greatest blunder." But Einstein was only human, and humans make mistakes. But when one examines his miscalculation, one can see that every sign he used in it happened to be a true and useful sign that could be used in other true calculations, even the sign that he inserted into his calculations. His miscalculation was only false because it was a misuse of true and real mathematical signs. All of reality is like that. Humans use ideas, feelings, and sense objects, all of which are real, to formulate systems that can be true and useful, but also systems that can be false and useless.

For example, a certain mathematician, call him Albert, announced to all his fellow mathematicians that he had solved one of the unsolvable math problems. His fellow mathematicians gathered with him in a schoolroom so that Albert could demonstrate his calculation. Albert used a piece of chalk and wrote his calculation on a blackboard. He reached a conclusion and announced that he had solved the unsolvable math problem. Albert asked for questions. One of the mathematicians, call him John, raised his hand and questioned Albert's calculation because John thought that Albert had misused one of the signs he had in his calculations. Albert objected to John's question and explained that he had perfectly good and logical reasons for his use of that sign. John agreed that his reasons for using that sign sounded good, but in reality his reasons were specious. John also told Albert that he could do a bit of math that would show Albert why his good reasons were actually specious. John then went to the blackboard and wrote out a calculation that proved to Albert without a doubt that he had misused that sign which meant his proof had failed. In a fit of anger with himself, Albert grabbed an eraser and wiped his entire miscalculation off of the blackboard. He then apologized to his fellow mathematicians. Albert wiped his miscalculation clean because he first realized in his mind that it happened to be useless and meant nothing. In other words, Albert used his real and useful idea of nothing to determine that his miscalculation was completely worthless. But when he wiped it from the blackboard, he symbolically reduced it to the absolute nothingness that was its falsity and its unreality. The immaterial unreality in his false system became un-observable. Humans can only experience that which is real and useful. Humans never directly experience unreality.

In another place in the world, a man, call him Vincent, decided that he wanted to paint his house a particular shade of blue that was not sold in any can of paint. He concocted a plan in his mind to mix various cans of blue paint to obtain the shade of blue that he desired. He dumped several cans of blue paint into a large tub, but he did not get the shade of blue that he thought he would obtain. About that time, an artist friend of Vincent, call him Raphael, entered the room. Vincent explained to Raphael how he had gotten the wrong color. Vincent showed Raphael a picture of the shade of blue that Vincent needed to paint his house. Raphael, who was an expert in how to mix colors to get a desired shade, told Vincent that if he dumped a can of white paint into the tub, then he would probably obtain the shade of pastel blue that he needed to paint his house. Vincent did that and got his desired color of blue. Everything Vincent did was very similar to that which mathematicians do. Vincent miscalculated, but with the help of Raphael, he got his calculations right. But whether he was right or wrong, he used real cans of paint just as mathematicians use real signs. When Vincent got the wrong color, he realized that it was useless and meant nothing. But when Raphael corrected his mistake, then Vincent obtained a true and real calculation that gave him a desired result. All of this example is very similar to true and false calculations in mathematics. But all that Vincent ever saw were real cans of paint. He never saw the falsity in his miscalculation although he did get the real idea of nothing about it. When Vincent forgot about his miscalculation, it symbolically faded into absolute nothingness. All of reality happens to be based on discarding false calculations and using true calculations, both of which use true and real elements. It is quite impossible for human consciousness to directly experience unreality because every idea, feeling, or sense object is useful for the creation of useful calculations, and the idea of nothing is useful to indirectly identify unreality.

The atheists and materialists have calculated that the universe came into existence merely by chance. They reason that if an infinite number of universes were possible, then our universe would become inevitable. But their reason can only be wrong because there can be no such thing as an infinite number. All numbers can only be finite, no matter how huge they may be. Infinity has be be something other than a number.

Science has discovered that the existence of our universe happens to be based on a series of extremely fine tuned mathematical calculations. In addition, all of life happens to be based on an extremely complex series of chemical and electrical calculations. God is the ultimate mathematician.