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Response to salvorhardin (Original post)

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 09:38 PM

1. They think about mathematics the way the Greeks did in 500 BC, literally

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The Pythagoreans didn't like what we now call "irrational numbers" because they believed that the beauty of mathematics demanded that all ratios be expressible as the ratio of 2 whole numbers. Another good example of ideology trumping reality.

And for set theory ... it's the basis of the SQL database language, so I suppose they skip that subject in their Christian Computer Science classes.

What fools they are.

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5 replies	Author	Time	Post
What do Christian fundamentalists have against set theory? [View all]	salvorhardin	Aug 2012	OP
They think about mathematics the way the Greeks did in 500 BC, literally	LastDemocratInSC	Aug 2012	#1
K & R for the Doctor Who ref n/t	yodermon	Aug 2012	#2
I'll be honest	jade3000	Aug 2012	#3
arrgghh.	Manifestor_of_Light	Aug 2012	#4
As noted in the OP, set theory is relative. Fundamentalists prefer absolutism.	Jim__	Aug 2012	#5

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