Re: Numerics and Applied Apologetics

From: gordon brown (gbrown@euclid.Colorado.EDU)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 16:55:38 EDT

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    Vernon,

    91 is not the only positive integer that can be expressed as both the sum
    and difference of two cubes drawn from a sequence of four. 152 and 189
    also have this property.

    Many of the properties you cite concern sums or permutations of digits.
    Thus they relate only to our modern numeration with its positional
    notation.

    If one picks some number other than 37 or 91 and spends enough time
    working on it, he can find a number of properties that someone will
    consider to be interesting. Many of these will be similar to a number of
    those that you found for these two numbers. The determination as to which
    numbers are most interesting is subjective.

    How interesting the properties of these numbers are independent of what
    you have found in Gen. 1:1 hardly seems relevant to what you want to claim
    for that verse. Certainly whatever you find in Gen. 1:1 was deliberately
    placed there by the Lord, but you can't very well make the case that you
    have found a test for divine inspiration since it only works for one
    verse.

    Gordon Brown
    Department of Mathematics
    University of Colorado
    Boulder, CO 80309-0395



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