To All:
I've mentioned this before on this list, but just in case you missed
it..... If the topic of God and mathematics interests you, you should
invest your time (and cognitive muscle!) by reading "Where Mathematics
Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being" by
Lakoff and Nunez. I am always troubled when authors try to "prove" the
existence of God by using mathematics or statistics as if those subjects
represent objective truth. My training in cognition convinced me long
before Lakoff and Nunez that the human mind orders the world in a way
that it can be understood (e.g. mathematics). The ordering of that
world is man's ordering - not God's. "Proof" is a counter to "faith"
anyway - and certainly not a foundation for belief. Then to design a
proof based upon a human invention is even more outrageous.
Lucy
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