{"id":37355,"date":"2021-06-25T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/mathematical-base-of-universe\/"},"modified":"2021-06-25T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T11:32:00","slug":"mathematical-base-of-universe","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/mathematical-base-of-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mathematical Base of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his book, <em>The Sentient Machine<\/em>, Amir Husain writes:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Today I find myself drawn to the important observation that the universe around us is clearly a consequence of computation. A seed, for example, encodes the information necessary to produce a tree. With DNA as the software and cells and proteins as the hardware, the biological process is a computational one. We find these types of algorithmic outcomes everywhere we look in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Patterns like the Fibonacci sequence, for example, unlock designs across our cosmos. Everything from flower petals to the curving shells of a mollusk, to spiral galaxies, to hurricanes, adheres to this mathematical formula. Is this by chance?<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a mathematical seed at the heart of the cosmos that through the power of computation, has been magnified into the universe as we know it, just as a tree is a magnified seed.<\/p>\n<p>At some point in my early adolescence, I tried to imagine a future where all of science fused together. All the deductions completed and all the building blocks of science synthesized into a great pyramid of knowledge. At the very top of this pyramid however, I realized that I was still missing a block that tied it all together. That block is the ultimate question, &ldquo;What is this all for?&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>He then concludes with a chilling realization, that even with all of our advancements, &ldquo;we still don&rsquo;t know the purpose for our existence.&quot;<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead2\">Possible Preaching Angle:<\/h2>\n\n<p><em>As a Christian, we would argue, that just as a computer program begins in the mind of a computer scientist, the mathematical patterns that govern our universe are testimony to a Programmer. 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