Help Remaking America by George Shollenberger, Idea 100 + XXVI (Intelligent Design, XIc)
In this blog, I want to discuss George Cantor’s (1845-1918) transfinite numbers and how they might contribute to our knowledge of God’s Intelligence Design. This discussion will require some general knowledge about numbers you learned when you counted the eggs every Easter morning. In this blog, I will try to teach you how to count those many, many different things that God created. I will also try to teach you how some of these new numbers might tell you what these many, many different things might be.
In the last blog on Cantor, I identified the first and second transfinite numbers. Getting in more detail, the first transfinite number is represented by N1. This symbol means ‘all rational numbers.’ These rational numbers are as follows: 1, 2, 1/2, 1/3. 3, 4, 3/2, 2/3, 1/4, 1/5, 5 .... etc. Note. Each rational number appears only once. Since each rational number appears only once, the rational numbers can be coordinated with all natural numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, ... etc. All natural numbers are represented by N0.
The second transfinite number is represented by N2 and means ‘all rational and irrational numbers. However, all rational and irrational numbers cannot be coordinated with the natural numbers as the rational numbers do. Thus, when the irrational numbers are added to the rational numbers, N2 is said to be not denumerable and is not equivalent to all natural or all rational numbers. So, N2 is said to be a higher power or higher type of infinity. All other transfinite numbers thus fall into a sequence of increasing powers such as N0 , N1 , N2 , N3 , N4 , N5 , ... etc. This sequence can never be completed because God’s power is always greater than the highest transfinite number we ever discover.
At this time, we only know the N0 , N1 , and N2 transfinite numbers. We only know three transfinite numbers today because many of our mathematicians and scientists have turned away from God and are not searching for any higher transfinite numbers. This is a sign that atheism is growing. So, it is up to the people to destroy atheism so people return to God and continue the work of Cantor.
What are the implications of the discovery of Cantor’s transfinite numbers? And how do these numbers relate to God and the universe? To me it seems that all numbers and things are created by God in a way so that we can discover numbers and things. And it seems that only humans can make such discoveries because they received special minds, which can make such discoveries.
When discoveries of numbers and things are not being made by the people of a culture, I conclude that such a culture will degenerate. I believe that the USA has become a degenerating culture because its people are turning away from God, are becoming atheists, and are making fewer and fewer discoveries of the kind that can be discovered with Cantor’s transfinite numbers.
In the last blog on Cantor, I identified the first and second transfinite numbers. Getting in more detail, the first transfinite number is represented by N1. This symbol means ‘all rational numbers.’ These rational numbers are as follows: 1, 2, 1/2, 1/3. 3, 4, 3/2, 2/3, 1/4, 1/5, 5 .... etc. Note. Each rational number appears only once. Since each rational number appears only once, the rational numbers can be coordinated with all natural numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, ... etc. All natural numbers are represented by N0.
The second transfinite number is represented by N2 and means ‘all rational and irrational numbers. However, all rational and irrational numbers cannot be coordinated with the natural numbers as the rational numbers do. Thus, when the irrational numbers are added to the rational numbers, N2 is said to be not denumerable and is not equivalent to all natural or all rational numbers. So, N2 is said to be a higher power or higher type of infinity. All other transfinite numbers thus fall into a sequence of increasing powers such as N0 , N1 , N2 , N3 , N4 , N5 , ... etc. This sequence can never be completed because God’s power is always greater than the highest transfinite number we ever discover.
At this time, we only know the N0 , N1 , and N2 transfinite numbers. We only know three transfinite numbers today because many of our mathematicians and scientists have turned away from God and are not searching for any higher transfinite numbers. This is a sign that atheism is growing. So, it is up to the people to destroy atheism so people return to God and continue the work of Cantor.
What are the implications of the discovery of Cantor’s transfinite numbers? And how do these numbers relate to God and the universe? To me it seems that all numbers and things are created by God in a way so that we can discover numbers and things. And it seems that only humans can make such discoveries because they received special minds, which can make such discoveries.
When discoveries of numbers and things are not being made by the people of a culture, I conclude that such a culture will degenerate. I believe that the USA has become a degenerating culture because its people are turning away from God, are becoming atheists, and are making fewer and fewer discoveries of the kind that can be discovered with Cantor’s transfinite numbers.
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