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To: Senator Bedfellow
One of the things I think the Discovery Institute should look at is replacing the current materialist mathematics with one more in accord with a Christ-centered universe, a more theistic math.

Could you elaborate on this a bit? What would a "more theistic math" be, exactly? I'm genuinely curious how anyone would even begin to lay an axiomatic foundation for such a system, and how far back you'd have to deconstruct mathematics to do so. Is there some methodolgy you would propose for distinguishing theistic mathematical proofs from materialistic proofs?

26 posted on 10/10/2005 7:36:11 AM PDT by RogueIsland
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To: RogueIsland

Well, sure. For example, you can take an entire class in calculus or linear algebra without hearing about the Creator even once. Obviously, this exclusion is a result of the same forces excluding any mention of the Creator from biology - a prior commitment to materialism and/or atheism. This cannot stand. When studying mathematics, we could spend some time acknowledging the true origins of mathematics, and studying the Creator of all mathematics, in order to gain a fuller understanding without the materialist/atheist filters blinding us to Truth. And then, once we've done that, we've laid the groundwork for a theistic understanding of, say, physics or engineering, where we understand that things like Fourier transforms are they way they are because that's the way God wants them. Simple, no?


28 posted on 10/10/2005 7:53:04 AM PDT by Senator Bedfellow
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To: RogueIsland
Could you elaborate on this a bit? What would a "more theistic math" be, exactly?

I think the good Senator has his tongue firmly planted in his cheek.

32 posted on 10/10/2005 8:25:52 AM PDT by dread78645 (Sorry Mr. Franklin, We couldn't keep it.)
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