De Revolutionibus Veritatis
Twenty axioms from information theory. No theological premises. One conclusion the mathematics cannot avoid.
— David Lowe, 2025–2026
The proof generates the lock before anyone goes looking for the key.
Twenty Axioms from Information Theory
This is the formal proof. Twenty axioms. Each one individually undeniable—its negation leads to absurdity. Together they derive something no one expected from pure mathematics.
We start with four things every scientist already accepts: Shannon’s Information Theory (information is physical and measurable), Kolmogorov Complexity (the universe is compressed, not random), Gödel’s Incompleteness (no system can prove its own foundation), and Chaitin’s Limit (mathematics can’t even measure everything that’s out there).
None of these are controversial. They are proven theorems. They are the floor you’re standing on.
From these four pillars, we derive twenty axioms in six levels. The first seven establish that mathematical truth is necessary, eternal, universal, immaterial, and coherent. That profile matches no physical object in the universe. But it is precisely isomorphic to the classical divine attributes.
Then comes the turn. Axioms 8 through 11 prove that mathematical truth cannot ground itself. It cannot come from nothing (zero information produces zero output). It cannot come from chaos (random processes produce noise, not structure). And it cannot come from a deceptive source—because mathematical truth is non-deceptive, and a deceptive source cannot reliably produce honest output.
That last point is the keystone. Being non-deceptive is a moral property. We have just derived morality from information theory. The is-ought gap is bridged—not by philosophy, but by math.
The remaining axioms follow the thread. The source of universal truth must be universal. The source of eternal truth must be eternal. Mathematical and moral truth must share a common ground—because the ground of mathematical truth already has a moral property.
That ground is what the proof calls the Logos—a unified, rational, moral source. Necessary, eternal, universal, immaterial, coherent, and good. Functionally identical to the God of classical theism.
We did not design the axioms to produce this. We followed the mathematics. The mathematics went somewhere very specific.
Why the Universe Needs a Cheat Code
If you try to prove God exists using religion, people tune out. If you try to prove it using philosophy, people argue.
But if you show them a hole in the Math—a hole that every scientist admits is there—they have to listen. This paper is about that hole. It’s about why the Universe is like a video game that cannot run itself.
Imagine you have a dictionary. You want to know what “Truth” means. You look up Truth, it says “A fact.” You look up Fact, it says “Something certain.” You look up Certain, it says “True.” You are in a circle. The dictionary is a Closed System. You only know what the words mean because you live outside the book. You bring the meaning into the pages.
Mathematics is that dictionary. It works—brilliantly—but it cannot prove its own foundation. Gödel proved this in 1931. It is as certain as the Pythagorean theorem. The ground of math must be outside math.
The Universe is a ZIP file. The “Code” (like E=mc²) is tiny, but it unfolds into galaxies and DNA. Does a random coin flip create a ZIP file? Never. Structure requires a structured source. The “Code” of the universe implies a Coder.
In a video game, the character follows the “Laws of the Game.” But if the Player reaches down and enters a Cheat Code, the character is saved. It’s not “magic.” It’s System Intervention.
Our “Game” (the Universe) is trending toward entropy and death. Logic says we die. But the Grace Operator is the Player reaching into the console and hitting “Continue.”
“Math is just something humans made up.” If that were true, you’d have to give up three things: Necessity (2+2 could sometimes equal 5), Universality (independent civilizations and 5-month-old babies converging on the same math is just coincidence), and Applicability (abstract math describing real physics is just luck).
Nobody will give up all three. The moment you keep them, you’ve admitted math is not merely a human product. It’s a window into something that was already there.
You are a character in a game trying to prove there’s no Player, while the Player is the only reason the screen is still turned on.
The Person Who Cannot Exist
The first two papers build the proof and explain why it holds. This paper asks a different question: What kind of person do you have to become to deny all twenty axioms?
Not in a seminar. In a life.
Deception is not just “wrong by convention.” In information theory, deception is noise—the introduction of entropy where signal should be. A source of pure signal cannot produce noise without becoming a different kind of source entirely.
So “good” = high signal integrity. “Evil” = noise injection. This is not derived from ethics. It’s derived from Shannon.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics says coherence spontaneously decays. Signal degrades into noise unless actively maintained. If the ground of mathematical truth were merely “structurally honest” but not actively working to maintain coherence, the Second Law would have destroyed its output long ago.
Active coherence maintenance against entropy IS goodness. Not by analogy. By structural identity. The gap between “non-deceptive” and “morally good” does not exist.
Deny that truth has value. Now you can’t object to being lied to—by anyone, about anything, ever. Deny that deception carries cost. Now betrayal is not wrong. Your closest friend can destroy your reputation and you have no grounds for complaint. Deny that math and morality share a common ground. Now you trust the coherence of a bridge with your life while claiming coherence is optional.
Describe the person who holds all three denials simultaneously.
This person has no preference between truth and falsehood. No objection to betrayal. No expectation of consistency. They do not choose a spouse, raise children, or hold a job—because all of those require valuation, and valuation requires a standard, and a standard requires coherence.
This person does not exist. Not because they’re rare. Because they’re impossible. A living organism that made no distinctions and enforced no preferences would not survive a single day. The Second Law would dismantle it.
A math error—2+2=5—registers intellectually. You correct it and move on. But harm to a child triggers an immediate, physical, involuntary response that overrides everything. That is not preference. That is signal. The deepest signal the universe sends through human beings. And developmental psychology shows it arrives at 6 months—before language, before culture, before anyone can teach it.
The question is not whether you believe in the moral structure of the universe. The question is whether you can stop acting as if you do. You can’t.
Christianity Tested Against All 20 Axioms
The first three papers define a lock. Twenty axioms derived from information theory. Eight boundary conditions. A proof that the denier cannot exist. Not one theological premise.
This paper tries keys.
The axioms were not designed to point at Christianity. They were designed to characterize mathematical truth. The constraints that emerged—necessary existence, eternality, universality, immateriality, coherence, rationality, moral goodness, active coherence maintenance—are consequences of the mathematics.
We built the lock before testing any key. That eliminates curve-fitting. That is prediction and confirmation, not retrofit.
Christianity is tested axiom by axiom, boundary condition by boundary condition.
“I AM WHO I AM” (Exodus 3:14) — necessary existence. “Before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58) — temporal independence. “God is spirit” (John 4:24) — immateriality. “Impossible for God to lie” (Hebrews 6:18) — coherence. “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6) — Christ does not merely tell truth; He claims to be truth.
And the keystone: “In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God” (John 1:1). The rational ordering principle of the universe—the unified ground of mathematical and moral truth—is the opening line of the Gospel.
Score: 20 out of 20. All 8 boundary conditions satisfied.
No other worldview achieves a perfect score. The closest competitor fails at the point of maximum specificity—the Logos identification that distinguishes Christianity from all other monotheisms.
The probability of any worldview satisfying all 20 constraints by coincidence ranges from 1 in a million to 1 in 100 trillion, depending on independence assumptions. The lock was machined by mathematics. The key was forged two thousand years ago. They fit.
The mathematics does not prove Christianity true. Mathematics cannot prove historical claims. What it does is narrow the field to a single candidate, generate requirements that candidate must meet, and observe that it meets every one of them—with room to spare. The remaining step is not mathematical. It is personal. The proof shows you the lock and the key. It cannot make you turn the key. That is between you and the Logos.
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