Christianity and Mathematics... lol

[Ginarley]

Maybe this should be in the humour section instead - I just can't stop laughing!

Clicky (http://www.trnty.edu/faculty/robbert/SRobbertWebFolder/ChristianityMath/)

[Genesius]

How many variations on:

1 cross
+3 nails
_______
4given

can they come up with?

:rolleyes:

Or will the whole class be spent explaining how pi = exactly 3?

[Ginarley]

Or more precisesly the fact that pi is irrational proves god exists... or maybe just that god is irrational - either way :)

[Marquis de Carabas]

Yes, I want math lessons from the guys who brought us 1+1+1=1, please.

[Jorghnassen]

Yes, I want math lessons from the guys who brought us 1+1+1=1, please.

1+1+1=1 in Z_2...

And we all know that God thinks he's a mathematician.

[Marquis de Carabas]

1+1+1=1 in Z_2...
Yes, and in certain notations of boolean, but I don't think the trinitarians know this.

[Tanstaafl]

How many variations on:

1 cross
+3 nails
_______
4given

can they come up with?


I'm trying to picture where the third nail might go... Yikes!

[TobiasTheViking]

I'm trying to picture where the third nail might go... Yikes!

left hand, right hand, both feet.

[CapelDodger]

left hand, right hand, both feet.
If you get a last minute reprieve they take them out in the same order ... those Romans had a nasty sense of humour.

[boojum]

Pharyngula had a post (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/08/christian_calculus.php) about a "Christian Calculus Course" a few months ago.

Here's an excerpt:


I was taking calculus. I was a mathematics major and I was at a Christian college that was called Christian, but was not Christian....

I asked a question to my calculus professor: "What makes this course distinctly Christian?" He stopped. He said no one has ever asked that question before...

He said, "Okay, I'm a Christian you're a Christian."

I said, "That's not what I asked! What makes this calculus course distinctly Christian? What makes this different from the local secular university. Are we using the same text? Yes. Are you teaching it the same way? Yes. Then why is this called a Christian college and that one a non-Christian college?"


The post at Pharyngula has a great comment thread.

[T'ai Chi]

As long as they get the same answers, why do you care what the motivation is?

[ChrisC]

I don't read it as a question of motivation, but as a question of definition. "What makes this calculus class Christian?"

[Ginarley]

What makes it christian according to that website is the endless amusing-to-the-point-of-parody attempts to link calculus to scripture!

[Glen.Nogami]

This sanctification process is like the limit process of the secant lines approaching the tangent line.

I'm debating adding this to my sig. One of the funnier things I've ever read.

[The Atheist]

If you get a last minute reprieve they take them out in the same order ... those Romans had a nasty sense of humour.

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