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The “Miracle” of Math and Beauty
The thirteenth post answering the question: What good is Christianity. I am explaining the benefits of Christian belief as a starting point for discussion on the reformation or remaking Christianity. The idea here is that if these beliefs are beneficial and are based on the basic Christian teaching, however Christianity ends up changing, it would benefit from preserving them. I reiterate again that in this series I am not arguing the truth or falsity of these beliefs, only if they do those who believe them any good.
The proposition to be defended here:
It is better to believe that art, music, aesthetics and mathematical truths are entry points to a beauty and meaning beyond this life than to believe they are meaningless by-products of human evolution.
When asked before why I believe in God and the Christian story I have answered because of math and beauty. A strange answer, perhaps. But explaining math, the existence of beauty and the aesthetic experience in the secular-physicalist understanding creates a rational stretch. Are these human inventions compatible with the evolutionary dogma that the only thing that counts is the selfish gene and the survival of the fittest? I think not. It’s one example of Ockham’s Razor coming to the defense of theism and Christianity.
