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Math, Science, and the Eternal
I was lying in bed this morning, thinking about mathematics as the language that God uses to communicate his creation to us.
Then in Mass today, something reminded me of the fact that of Faith, Hope, and Love, only love persists in Heaven, because Faith and Hope point towards the everlasting, but Love is everlasting. Math and science likewise will pass away. We will see things as they are, and have no further need of the theoretical, the abstract, or generalizatins based on observed phenomena.
God is big enough that everything that happens is case-by-case for Him. There are no laws that bind Him; any scientific laws that we have observed are because in His goodness he has made the universe intelligible. Science is generalizations based on observation. Miracles are times when observed phenomena go against what is expected from these scientific generalizations.
But it's all God, both the mundane occurrences that follow what we think of as scientific laws, and the miracle.
That's not to say that pursuit of Math, Science, or any other worldly good is a poor use of time. On the contrary, helping to shine the light of reason on the way the universe works is good. I don't really know where I'm going on this. I have to do some more thought and research on this line of thought.