GOD, THE GREATEST
Artistry and Precision in the Universe
THE DISTINGUISHED British-Lebanese mathematician, Sir Michael Francis Atiyah (d. 2019), said that God is a mathematician. Similarly, Nobel Prize winning physicist, Paul Dirac has said, ‘God is a mathematician of a very high order.’ This idea is not new. Over fifty years ago, English physicist and mathematician, Sir James Jeans suggested that the universe was handiwork of a mathematician. Centuries before him Pythagoras said that all things are numbers. To Picasso, God was an artist. ‘God is really another artist,’ he said. ‘He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat.’ Einstein once said that ‘the Lord is subtle and – though not malicious – is very clever.’
One who observes the universe is confronted with the awesome feeling that there is a being greater than himself at work here. A mathematician comes across such complex mathematics as to make him aware of the triviality of his grasp of the subject. ‘God is a great mathematician!’ he exclaims. To an artist, the art displayed in the universe appears so sublime as to make his art seem worthless and he spontaneously cries out, ‘God is the greatest artist!’ The wisdom prevailing in the universe is such as to astonish a genius; he in turn discovers that there is a genius far greater than him at work.
God’s might is indeed manifest in a thousand ways, but it is only those who open their minds and hearts to Him who can be truly aware of His blessings
The truth is that God is the greatest mathematician, the greatest artist and the greatest genius. When one observes the sublimity of the details in the grand design of the universe, they are wonder-struck. One, then, cannot fail to recognize God’s wisdom, knowledge and infinite might. One who fails to find the manifestations of God in the universe is blind. One who does not believe in God after having seen Him is insensate. God’s might is indeed manifest in a thousand ways, but it is only those who open their minds and hearts to Him who can be truly aware of His blessings.