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Asked by smolgabs13 on 8 Jan 2020.
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Fiona Macfarlane answered on 8 Jan 2020: last edited 8 Jan 2020 3:20 pm
great question! Personally, I believe Science and faith do not contradict each other, they just answer different questions. Science answers the ‘How’ questions and Faith answers the ‘Why’ questions.
As a Christian scientist I believe that maths and Science can help us to understand the world that God created, but I do not think it could find definite ‘proof’
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Amy Mason answered on 8 Jan 2020:
I don’t think it can. I don’t believe in God, but let us assume He exists (from my lapsed CoE background knowledge). He is all-knowing and all-powerful. Hence if he wanted to provide proof of His existence, he could and would have. Instead many of the writings ask us to take things on faith – a belief existing in the absence of proof. Thus I would conclude He doesn’t want us to have proof, and that we won’t find any.
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Sophie Carr answered on 9 Jan 2020:
This is a super tricky question! The Reverend Bayes (of Bayes theorem which Hannah Fry mentioned in her lectures) actually set out to show that God existed and when he didn’t feel he’d done this, he didn’t publish his work. His theorem is now used all over, but it hasn’t ever “proved” God exists. As for whether or not it can find the existence, I’m not sure that it can and I’m even less sure that I would want it to. Sometimes in maths you work on problems when there aren’t answers and you need to have faith that what you’re doing is right – even though it might not be because there isn’t much evidence. A religious faith is similar, a belief in something even though there might not be a lot of “evidence” If we can use maths to prove a faith then I think we might take away part of being human, that innate ability to create, believe and imagine what could be.
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