Kurt Godel - metamathematician Metamathematics & Metaphysics

Metamathematics is the study of the elementary ideas used in mathematical logic. Kurt Godel, Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert were meta mathematicians. Bertrand wrote, "Mathematics is that subject in which we do not know what we are talking about, nor whether what we say is true." Godel proved mathematically that any mathematical theorem that is 'true' is unprovable no matter how complete the proof may be. Metamathematics is akin to metaphysics - the study of science's foundational ideas. Mathematical theories in a structured system of physics are also unprovable, no matter how complete the proof.

Metamathematics and metaphysics are intertwined. Take Aristotle's law of logic, A = A. Logic may seem self-evident, but it fails if the properties of matter are always emerging. Every 'A' would continue to be an A, yet ancient 'As' (atoms) would be unlike modern ones. If the properties of matter are emerging relationally, the rules of mathematical logic and measuring would work locally at any particular moment. However, logical implications, measurements and physics laws would fail when applied to the distant past.

The Bible strikes at the basis for both mathematics and physics by predicting that in the last days false teachers will come. The false teachers will obfuscate earth-history and the history the starry heavens with the idea that all things remain the same (2 Peter 3:3 - 6).What if the Bible is right, that the whole creation is phthora, internally changing ? What if matter changes in an orderly together manner
(Romans 8:20 - 22)? What if all atoms change relationally as they age?

What would such a universe look like?

1. We would see with our eyes that the light from all ancient suns is different from the light from modern, local suns. If atoms change relationally, in an orderly manner, the frequencies from ancient atoms would be tiny ratios of those from local atoms. This is indeed what we observe.

2. We could follow how the galaxies changed their shapes throughout cosmic history. Indeed we see that ancient galaxies were naked and densely packed with stars. In billions of examples at many ranges, we see how the galaxies grew into huge growth spirals as the stars and gas accelerated outwards. Our universe visibly fits non structured, non mathematical biblical physics.

3. We could see that the primordial earth was minuscule, as the words of the Bible imply. Indeed we find a global expansion seam continually forming new Earth crust. Two thirds of the Earth's crust, under the oceans, is newer than the continents. The continents only fit together on a tiny globe. The soft, layered, undisturbed sediments in the ocean trenches clearly show that scientists obfuscate by inventing magical, undetectable subduction.

4. We can see with our eyes that the properties of matter are always changing throughout cosmic history. Matter keeps on taking up more space, its quantum frequencies keep on increasing and its inertial properties keep on changing - relationally. Biblical physics explains the visible universe simply, without mathematics. By contrast, mathematical stories about beginnings violate the genealogies and earth-histories of our early ancestors. The scientific universe is 99% invisible, filled with magical matter and undetectable vacuous processes. All of them were invented to protect their metaphysical assumption that atoms do perpetual motion.

Why would God make a universe where atoms continually change? So no one can find Him with wisdom. Yet if you believe His promise to save sinners who trust in Christ's atoning sacrifice, you will find Him. Examine the metaphysical foundation for mathematics and physics.

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