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Because if they don't I think that lends credence to the claim that the universe is contingent, and while that doesn't directly imply a deity (let alone the Judeo-Christian one), it certainly makes explicit atheists look a bit silly.
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Edited by Ric_Adbur: 8/6/2013 6:22:03 PMIt's my understanding that mathematical truths [i]do[/i] in fact rely on the physical laws of the universe, in the sense that science has not excluded the possibility of there being other universes with different physical constants and different mathematical truths from our own. Things in math can only be said to be absolutely true in our universe because of the fundamental underpinnings that comprise it.