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To: LibWhacker

So I'm to believe in a 57-dimensional model, and creationism is a fairy tale?

No thanks - I'll stick with Genesis.


2 posted on 03/19/2007 8:43:57 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem - Ps 122:6)
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To: Eccl 10:2
> So I'm to believe in a 57-dimensional model, and creationism is a fairy tale? No thanks - I'll stick with Genesis.

"Belief" doesn't apply to mathematics and physics -- those sciences don't rely on faith. Consider:

God's Love is infinite and beyond our comprehension, yet He granted us human Love as a model, to help us understand. A child can love, and in that act becomes one with God.

God's Universe includes complexities (perhaps 57-D ones) that are beyond our comprehension, yet He granted us the mathematics to describe the Universe with models, to help us understand. Mathematicians and physicists can appreciate the beauty of those models, and in doing so, appreciate the Creation itself (whether they admit it out loud or not).

I see no contradiction in believing that God created a Universe of infinite majesty and complexity, and yet inspired the author of Genesis to phrase it in a simpler way that would help all people grasp the Creation.

Nothing in this fancy 57-D mathematical model requires that in order to appreciate it, you have to give up your religious beliefs. They are not in opposition.

That said, of course you're welcome to reject the mathematics -- it's a free country.

11 posted on 03/19/2007 9:06:59 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: Eccl 10:2

Not at all what is invited in this calculation. Don't be obtuse. Seeing some of the mathematical facets of God's plan is not blasphemy.


12 posted on 03/19/2007 9:08:23 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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To: Eccl 10:2

So I'm to believe in a 57-dimensional model"


For the feat, the team used a mix of theoretical mathematics"

This is imaginative science.


17 posted on 03/19/2007 9:31:12 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
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To: Eccl 10:2

Even if so, how would it differ from God?


28 posted on 03/19/2007 10:00:37 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Eccl 10:2

57
As in "varieties"?

As in 3 times.... 19 ??


41 posted on 03/20/2007 1:16:33 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Eccl 10:2

A tree is known by its fruit. Where is the FRUIT here?


44 posted on 03/20/2007 1:28:43 AM PDT by timer (n/0=n=nx0)
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To: Eccl 10:2

You limit God to only three dimensions?


63 posted on 03/20/2007 8:53:59 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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