May I respond to Arbibi Ashoy's interesting letter, God's existence, mathematically .

First, his use of some results from mathematics.

1. For any numbers a and b, then the division (a/b) gives an infinite set of resulting numbers. Unless a = b in which case, as Arshibi points out, the result is just the number 1. Agreed.

2. Given a number, say 423, the result of adding the digits in that number together is, in this case 4 + 2 + 3 = 9. In this case, therefore, by the mathematical argument of reductio ad absurdum, I have demonstrated that his second assertion is false i.e. if you keep adding the digits in any number, the result is patently not always 1.

3. His third assertion, that the limit of x to the nth root is 1, we can accept provided x > 0.

4. Einstein's equation refers, I think, to the equivalence of mass M and energy E. When, through the process of nuclear fission or fusion, energy is released, this equation gives the relationship.

So it is not true to say that energy cannot be created or destroyed. What happens is a transmutation of mass into energy or vice versa. The sun is the most vivid example of mass being converted into energy through nuclear fusion.

Since the sun is producing vast amounts of energy and Arbibi, I think says that God is energy. So can we conclude that sunlight is God?

I am not persuaded that the existence or otherwise of God, will emerge at the end of some mathematical theorem. One thing for sure, behind the grand design of this particular universe that we find ourselves living in, very fleetingly, is a mathematician.

But this may not yet be God, just some incredibly ancient (think of a scientific advanced 'alien' civilisation billions of years old ) and further yet, in distant time and space, beyond our ability to ever comprehend, lies ... God. Or does God still elude one?

I think it is a waste of time to keep on harping whether or not there is a God. Can we not, as human beings, be good and kind and caring to our fellow humans without all the apparatus of organised religions, some of which unfortunately have extremist followers who actually go to the extent of advocating murder and violence purportedly in the name of their religion?

The religious leaders of such faiths must make it a point to immediately distance themselves from such hate groups and not, instead, ask others to 'understand' them.