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God created the real numbers

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tboyd47 ◴[] No.45068672[source]
> If the something under examination causes a sense of existential nausea, disorientation, and a deep feeling that is can't possibly work like that, it is divine.

This is a Jewish and Christian conception of God. How can this be true when so many things that give us comfort in the natural world: fresh fruit, shade trees, sunshine and warm sand between our toes, etc., were not created by man?

Even in mathematics itself: how improbable, how ludicrous, how miraculous is it that the 3rd, 4th, and 5th natural numbers -- numbers you could discover by looking at your own hands -- have the amazing property of demonstrating the Pythagorean theorem?

The Islamic ideal of God (Allah) is so much more balanced. God created both the integers AND the reals. He created everything, some things for our comfort and rest, some things to drive us close to madness, and a lot of stuff in between. Peel back enough layers of causality and all of creation has the stamp of the divine.

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