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Godel's incompleteness theorems.

• hollerith 19y ago
  How did that rock your world? I'm not asking you to explain the theorems -- I understand them -- just indicate why or how they are significant to you.
  • DaniFong 19y ago
    In brief, they're mathematical proofs that certain things are unknowable. Mathematics rarely gets so close to theology. And religion is rarely so certain.
    • hollerith 19y ago
      Oh, so before you learned about the theorems, you thought you could know anything, and the theorems set you right on that point? And somehow that was a theological or transcendental experience?
      • DaniFong 19y ago
        There's a big difference in the emotional experience of thinking you know something, and actually having proof of it. I think most theists would be similarly amazed by an encounter with a deity.