Science and Math

Mathematics of Beauty #2: Where Does It Come From Originally?

Part 2 of 6 — The Greeks, the Church Fathers, and what proportion actually means

Oct 21 • David Clayton

The Mathematics of Beauty, #1: Harmony, Monotony, and Cacophony

The good, the bad, and the ugly of design principles

Oct 7 • David Clayton

Read The Previous Five Articles on Science, Faith and Beauty in This Order...

Plus a summary of what they contain and why I wrote them

Aug 30 • David Clayton

(Science 5) Perhaps God Does Play Dice! Uncertainty is Essential To Quantum Mechanics...And So Is a Knowing Mind

A concluding observation: what it would actually take to eliminate the need for a knowing mind

Aug 26 • David Clayton

(Science 4) God Always Fills the Gap! The only question is whether he uses natural science to do so

Reframing the God-of-the-gaps objection — and how quantum mechanics informs the argument

Aug 19 • David Clayton

(Science 3) Does Quantum Mechanics Undermine Materialism? Part II: Minds, God, and the Beauty of Creation

Quantum aesthetics!

Jun 10 • David Clayton

(Science 2) Does Quantum Mechanics Undermine Materialism? Part I: Determinism, Free Will, and the First Cause

A response to physicist Stephen M. Barr, with additions

Jun 3 • David Clayton

(Science 1) Science is a faith (even for atheists)

Reconciling Science, Faith, Beauty, Creativity and the Existence of God: and How to Form Scientists as Creatives in the Art of Scientific Discovery

May 6 • David Clayton

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