Did science really kill God? The Enlightenment tells us atheism is the logical result of science: after Copernicus, Newton and Darwin, belief simply lost its credibility. Tomer Persico, author of “In God's Image”, says that story is a delusion. Drawing on thinkers from Voltaire to Nietzsche, he argues that atheism's rise in the West owes less to science than to religious values it has never escaped. Tap the link to read now.

Historical founders of modern science who were theists These framed their science as reading "God's book of nature,". Isaac Newton — devout but heterodox (anti-Trinitarian); wrote more on theology than physics. Johannes Kepler — saw planetary laws as discovering the Creator's geometry. Galileo — held that scripture and nature can't truly conflict. Robert Boyle — father of modern chemistry; funded lectures defending Christianity. Michael Faraday & James Clerk Maxwell — both serious Christians (Faraday a Sandemanian). Gregor Mendel — Augustinian friar, founder of genetics. Georges Lemaître — Catholic priest who proposed the Big Bang. Blaise Pascal — mathematician; the Pensées and the famous "wager."

#Todayinhistory# 1643.1.4 Isaac Newton was born in the village of Woolthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. Newton's discoveries in physics and mathematics revolutionized science, giving it an important and exalted place in the history of science.

These 17 equations didn't just describe the world, they rebuilt it. From a² + b² = c² to E = mc², each line is a lever that moved science, technology, and how we see reality. Pythagoras gave us geometry. Newton gave us change and gravity. Euler gave us the imaginary and the topology of space. Gauss, Fourier, Maxwell, Schrödinger, Shannon: each formula compressed centuries of observation into something that could be used, predicted with, and built upon. They are not decorations. They are the shortest, sharpest instructions reality has given us so far. Mathematics is how the universe writes its own source code.

The man who discovered gravity left us a date... and his private papers were hidden for 209 years. Isaac Newton wrote more about God and prophecy than about physics. Late in life, after decades decoding the Book of Daniel, he wrote this in his private notes: "...will end A.C. 2060. It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner." He said he only wrote it to stop "fanciful men" from predicting the end... yet he never published it. In 1727, Newton died and his family locked the papers away. In 1888, Cambridge kept his science and handed the prophecy back. In 1936, it was all auctioned off at Sotheby's. Keynes bought a pile and called him "the last of the magicians." The prophecy papers ended up in Jerusalem. 2060 is 34 years away. Why would the greatest scientist who ever lived obsess over the time of the end... unless he found something we were never meant to see?😉

Many people reading the Math AI misalignment letter are reacting with “oh those mathematicians, they just didn’t like the fact that AI is taking away their jobs”. That’s the wrong take. And this is exactly the misalignment that we need to understand. There are human endeavors that the whole point is the outcome. This shows up in engineering. Let’s say we want to design a better rocket engine. All basic principles are all grounded in physics, and AI can speed run the design space. The end result can be something superhuman but it does not take more than a college graduate these days to look at the design and understand it because it is fully within the basic principles of modern physics. And then there are human endeavors in basic science that the primary focus is understanding itself. This is how Newton and Einstein are remembered by us. They advanced our understanding of the reality. For example, AI speedrun the gravity law seems harmless, but it may not take the calculus route and only the numerical route, and thus human still does not know how to “understand” gravity. If AI can speed run to cure a specific cancer out of a specific drug, we still want to know the mechanism, otherwise we’d be using AI as a witch doctor. Humanity thrived after the Renaissance because we have used science as the compound substrate to accumulate understandings and explanations. A misalignment here, as shown the OpenAI’s act, is to skip that accumulation step at the cost of understanding. Mathematicians have been saying forever that solving open problems isn’t about the end goal, it’s the tools and thinkings along the way. Because those paths are the compound that allows human to thrive in the next cycle. Taking that away is alarming not for mathematicians, it’s alarming for humanity. If superintelligence AI is becoming a witch doctor, we’d be living in Ignorance. Ayn Rand would want to have a word with you.

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