"Numbers," said the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras, "are the essence of all things."  Maybe you like mathematics, maybe you don't.  Maybe you do not see the presence of numbers in the structures of the universe, maybe you do not sense the ubiquity of numbers in all that we do.  Or perhaps you see numbers as the work of God in the make up of the cosmos, that the fact of numbers indicates that God has made an orderly universe.
     Without question, the universe has a sense of balance and order, a presence of symmetry, number, and function that seems to defy imagination.  And we all wonder:  how did such a perfectly tuned structure come to be?  Why did numbers, the foundation of order, the harbinger of space and time, come to be so deeply woven into the fabric of the cosmos?
     Perhaps it's too easy to say that God created it this way, and that, given all things, this was the only world he could have made.  Perhaps.  On the other hand, as any number of unbelievers have remarked, the universe could not be anything other than what it is if it is to exist.  Obviously.  Regardless, it seems that a cosmos grounded in number and, necessarily, order, is essential to our wellbeing and sentient existence.
    Hence, the bigger question is this:  without trapping ourselves in logical circularity, how do we explain the fact of this numbered and orderly existence?
     Have a great day.