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According to the so-called 'Pythagorean Illuminati', in Mike Hockney's eBook The God Factory, there are only 4 methods of receiving knowledge of ultimate reality:

1. Scientific materialism
   
2. Metaphysics
3. Religion
4. Mathematics
   

Let's explore each one of them as Hockney summarises them.

1. Scientific materialism states that experimentation of scientific theories is the only method to be positive of anything. If empirical evidence reflect scientific theories, then they are correct. Anything that cannot be tested is then either metaphysics or religion.

2. Metaphysics is what comes post physics - everything that cannot be solved with experimentation. Hockney says that metaphysical statements have been challenged on many grounds and so no one seems to take it seriously as a way for objective knowledge. "Scientists," Hockney says, "frequently sneer at philosophy, dismissing it as mere metaphysics. Of course, a huge amount of science is metaphysical." He adds that cosmology is also metaphysical, as well as the various interpretations of Quantum Mechanics. Hockney goes on to say that 'The Many Worlds' interpretation of quantum mechanics is all metaphysical, "If not utter science fiction." Holistically, metaphysics is highly speculative, very interesting, but all in all, unreliable.

3. Religion, an alternate type of metaphysical inquiry, states that absolute knowledge or truth can be known by an infallible authority i.e. a Holy Text, a divine revelation, a Messiah, a saint, a guru, a holy man, a prophet. Religion is based on faith, in that, you must believe without asking any questions what the holy source says. "For any thinking, rational person," Hockney continues, "this is no kind of answer."

4. According the Pythagorean Illuminati, mathematics presents the absolute and 'unarguable' truth of the cosmos. Mathematics, unlike science, can be done purely mentally. Mathematical truths are of reason alone. "A perfect mathematical universe could be constructed entirely in the mind."

I think I'll leave it there as it gets a bit complex but basically, the Pythagorean Illuminati think mathematics is the only truth there is.

I'll just ask you this: Do you think there could be order, organisation, patterns, laws, or relationships between things, without mathematics?

Arguments for God's Existence | The Philosophy Student

‘Atheism’ is the belief that there is no god, no Creator, God simply doesn’t exist and any belief in any god/goddess is wrong. Materialist scientists tend to be atheists, as they believe that only the material universe exists, and if no evidence of ‘God’ can be found in the material universe, there can be no god at all.

With a bit of reading, you realise that God is outside space and time. God isn’t in the material cosmos but outside ‘the matrix’, so to speak, if you’re familiar with the movies, the simulation that we are living in, the spatial-temporal matrix or hologram, a dimension made out of a computer; an illusion, a dreamworld. In The Matrix: Reloaded, Neo meets the Architect – the Creator of the Matrix, or God, as in the monotheistic depiction. It is interesting that God is a program, an artificial intelligence, and therefore, machine-like, with a mathematical precision.

If God is outside the universe, can there be evidence of God here on Earth?

One can say that nature, or specifically, that 1.618 or phi or the Golden Ratio, showing up in its design, that is to say, that nature may not have developed, just accidentally, randomly, or out of nowhere.

Another argument for there being evidence of God here in this universe is what we call ‘love’, a satisfying emotional state of pure beauty and deep sadness in a confused world that doesn’t seem to care. It gives us hope of a better future, maybe not for us, but for our children and our children’s offspring.

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Mathematical patterns and the emotion of love.

The existence of such things show order and purpose, or at least, some kind of significant process of that which makes up the circle of life, as in the case of love.

But can the mathematical patterns exist without a sort of intelligence, such as a designer/mathematician?

Can the chemical process of love have existed without something causing it to happen?

Therefore, there might just be an entity (entities?) which created the universe. It/They are outside space and time, but may be able to alter the code of reality at will.

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