Learning about God from Math

Good Math, Bad Math points to the course description of a geometry class taught at a Christian high school,

Students will examine the nature of God as they progress in their understanding of mathematics. Students will understand the absolute consistency of mathematical principles and know that God was the inventor of that consistency. They will see God’s nature revealed in the order and precision they review foundational concepts while being able to demonstrate geometric thinking and spatial reasoning. The study of the basics of geometry through making and testing conjectures regarding mathematical and real-world patterns will allow the students to understand the absolute consistency of God as seen in the geometric principles he created. Students will demonstrate an awareness of the structure of a mathematical system, connecting definitions, postulates, logical reasoning, and theorems while exploring attributes of geometric figures. Students will make and verify conjectures about angles, lines, polygons, circles, and three-dimensional figures through coordinate and transformational approaches. Through the knowledge of conditional statements and their converses, constructing and justifying statements about geometric figures and their properties, students will begin understanding the concepts of constructing geometrical proofs. Students will be able to solve problems with the use of formulas for the areas and volumes of polygons and circles while applying them to real-world situations; in addition, they will develop and improve their spatial visualization and reasoning skills with three-dimensional figures. As they investigate properties of parallel lines, students will write deductive arguments to justify their conclusions and apply those properties to real situations. Students will apply their knowledge of triangles to develop properties of parallelograms, trapezoids, and kites as they continue developing their mathematical reasoning abilities and their algebraic skills by learning to write coordinate proofs. Right-triangle trigonometry will be introduced in the area of sine and cosine ratios and vectors. Finally, students will study circles from an algebraic point of view by writing equations of circles in the coordinate plane.

Wow, where to start?

I assume the school doesn’t teach a course in how quantum theory reveals the nature of God, or maybe they just teach that the devil is in details.

If geometry can teach us about God’s consistency and order, what can we learn about God’s nature from some other great mathematical and scientific discoveries?

1) EPR thought experiment - God is not sovereign.
2) Chaitin’s omega - And so much for omnipotence.
3) Gödel’s incompleteness theorem - He is either limited or trivial.
4) Schrödinger’s cat - Maybe God exists and doesn’t exist. At the same time. (Who said agnosticism couldn’t be via positiva?)

PS. This isn’t meant to poke fun at beliefs about God, rather the absurdness of natural theology taken to its logical ends.