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Does God Make Mathematics? In general, religions strictly depend on people's tendency to believe in rituals and mysticism. When followers of a religion face a fact that is conflicting with what they believe in, instead of drawing a result from that fact, they prefer to neglect it. In my paper I will question the tendency of people to neglect facts for the sake of the continuation of their system of beliefs and I will look at conflicts between science and religion which are two of our major themes in our course. I will specifically focus on the Pythagoreans who lived around sixth century A.D. They obeyed the rules of Pythagorean order. This order contained ethical beliefs which had mathematical foundations. Pythagoreans believed that, God ordered universe by means of numbers. They claimed that every thing depends on the ratios of natural numbers (Katz, 1998). Later on, they discovered the existence of irrationals which they previously assumed not to exist. Because...

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