Posted on 03/08/2012 2:04:14 PM PST by NYer
Catholic ping!
I always found that mathematics is also a great way to see the awesomeness of God.
Thank you, Brother.
Yes, a very interesting man who didn’t take the nominal path to his vocation.
I enjoyed the entire conference.
Thank-you Brother for all you do to help people find God in His creation.
That same afternoon Justice Scalia spoke to us for about half an hour.
Can you imagine that hasn’t made the MSM?
In before the obligatory Galileo reference...
Copernicus’ contemporaneous research into heliocentrism was funded by a bishop, and Copernicus dedicated his most famous book to the pope. So heliocentric theory wasn’t the driving force behind the confrontation between the pope and Galileo.
http://www.catholic.com/tracts/the-galileo-controversy
-——I always found that mathematics is also a great way to see the awesomeness of God.-——
Ask an atheist if they’be ever observed a number 7 in the wild. It’s fun!
Yes, because mathematics requires absolute logic.
Didn’t Sir Isaac Newton regard his discoveries as revealing God?
Biology does it for me, and I'm a Math major. (Or I was!)
ML/NJ
Great article, Thanks. As brilliant men knew for thousands of years—there is no separation of Faith and Reason. It is never possible.
It was never really considered possible until the Postmodernists, esp, by Marx who wanted to destroy the concept of God and Reason, so he could redesign man to his liking. Completely threw out all rationality (Natural Law Theory) and replaced it with his irrational “faith” in no God, no logic and no science.
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Reality is like a huge (REALLY HUGE) machine or transmission. It all works together and it can all be explained and modeled in mathematical terms.
Nothing random...everything in its place. And infinitely beyond mankind's ability to fathom it.
Mathematics is an artform as well as a machine. It is logical and beautiful...and elegant.
I subscribe to the Astronomy Picture of the Day ping list. A few years back, they posted this image on Good Friday of Holy Week.
The Crown of Thorns Galaxy is located in the southern constellation known as Indus and is one of the brighter cluster of galaxies (BCG’s) so far photographed by Hubble.
Composed of uncounted stars, space dust and debris, it is quite an amazing and beautiful site. These type of BSGs are normally much older and quite large compared to their younger brethren, such as our own Milky Way Galaxy, which is a baby in age by comparison.
I don't believe in coincidence.
“The heavens declare the glory of God;
the sky displays his handiwork.
Day after day it speaks out;
night after night it reveals his greatness.
There is no actual speech or word,
nor is its voice literally heard.
Yet its voice echoes throughout the earth;
its words carry to the distant horizon.
In the sky he has pitched a tent for the sun.”
Psalm 19:1-4
“The heavens declare the glory of God;
the sky displays his handiwork.
Day after day it speaks out;
night after night it reveals his greatness.
There is no actual speech or word,
nor is its voice literally heard.
Yet its voice echoes throughout the earth;
its words carry to the distant horizon.
In the sky he has pitched a tent for the sun.”
Psalm 19:1-4
I don't believe in coincidence.
I don't either. Every weight, small and great, He placed on my conscience from the very beginning of my life has pointed to the Truth.
I didn't understand it initially...but time and maturity have borne it out.
He is all-wise and all-powerful, but also kind and gentle in the tiniest of matters!
And very personal!
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