So the guy with the highest recorded IQ on the planet — a South Korean scientist named Young Hoon Kim with a brain that allegedly clocks in at 276 — just dropped a three-minute YouTube video claiming he can mathematically prove God exists.
Not “philosophically suggest.” Not “spiritually intuit.”
Prove. With geometry.
Naturally, this happened right before Christmas.
The Setup: A Theology Degree Meets the Highest IQ Ever Recorded
Kim isn’t just some Reddit philosopher with a whiteboard fetish. He’s an AI researcher, an entrepreneur, and — this is the kicker — holds a theology degree from Seoul’s Yonsei University. So he’s been thinking about this from both sides of the aisle: hard science and ancient metaphysics.
For context, Einstein and Stephen Hawking supposedly hovered around IQ 160. Kim is nearly double that, which either makes him the most qualified person alive to settle the God question or the most dangerous person to hand a marker and a camera.
His argument? Three steps. All of them devastatingly simple.
The Three-Part Proof (Or: How Geometry Became Theology)
1. A Line Cannot Start Without a First Point
Kim begins with something you learned in elementary school: every line needs a starting point. You can’t draw a line on paper without putting your pen down somewhere first. No point, no line.
His leap: existence works the same way. If there was never a “first point” — a starting moment — then nothing could have ever begun. But we’re here. The universe is here. Life is here.
Ergo, there had to be a starting point. Something — or someone — had to go first.
2. You Cannot Cross an Endless Past
This one’s trickier, but stay with me.
Kim argues that if time stretched backward forever with no beginning, we could never have arrived at “today.” It’s like trying to count down to zero starting from negative infinity — you’d never finish. There’s no endpoint if there’s no starting number.
So if the past were truly infinite, we’d still be stuck somewhere back there, perpetually counting. The fact that we did reach today means the past isn’t endless.
Translation: Time had to start somewhere. And whatever started it exists outside of time.
3. Multiplication Shows Power Must Come From Somewhere
The final argument is almost absurdly elegant.
If you multiply one by one, forever, you never get anything bigger than one. 1 × 1 × 1 = 1. You can do it a trillion times. Still one.
But the universe didn’t stay at “one.” It expanded. It multiplied. It became galaxies, black holes, sentient beings arguing about God on the internet.
Kim’s conclusion: Something with greater power had to step in from outside the system to make that multiplication happen. The universe couldn’t bootstrap itself into complexity.
And that “something,” Kim says, is what we’ve been calling God for millennia.
The Punchline: “This Is Exactly What We Mean When We Say God Exists”
The video — which has racked up over 218,000 views — ends with Kim calmly stating: “The only explanation that fits all three is a first cause starting point. Necessary, powerful, timeless, and intelligent. And this is exactly what we mean when we say God exists.”
No dramatics. No altar call. Just: the math checks out.
It’s the kind of argument that would’ve made Thomas Aquinas nod slowly while sipping espresso.
Why This Lands (Especially at Christmas)
Look, I’m not here to tell you Kim’s proof is bulletproof. Philosophers have been poking holes in the “First Cause” argument since Aristotle. But there’s something oddly compelling about hearing it stripped down to geometry and multiplication — tools we all used in third grade.
And the timing is perfect. Because Christmas, for all its commercialized chaos, is still about the idea that the infinite became finite. That the starting point of the universe showed up in Bethlehem wearing skin.
Kim’s proof doesn’t replace faith — it just gives it a scaffolding. A reminder that belief in God isn’t some irrational leap into the void. It’s a logical response to the fact that something had to draw the first point.
The Controversy (Because Of Course There Is)
Kim hasn’t stopped at mathematical proofs. He’s also claimed that Jesus will return in 10 years, that homosexuality is a sin, and that faith in Jesus directly correlates to intelligence and success.
So, you know. Classic “smartest guy in the room” energy with a side of theological hand grenades.
But strip away the culture-war stuff, and what’s left is this: a guy with an IQ higher than most people’s credit scores looked at the universe and concluded that randomness alone can’t explain it.
Final Thought: The Weirdest Proof You’ll Hear This Christmas
Will this convince the skeptics? Probably not.
Will it give the believers something to chew on over eggnog? Absolutely.
Because at the end of the day, Kim’s argument isn’t about converting anyone. It’s about pointing at the edges of existence and saying, “You see that? That doesn’t happen by accident.”
And whether you agree or not, it’s one hell of a thing to think about while untangling Christmas lights.
Source: Daily Mail