What you educated guys can't handle, Thaumaturgy, is what we call "catastrophism" --- it pwns "uniformitarianism" back to where it came from.
Sorry but unless you are going to now say that "catastrophism" means
math worked differently in the past then this has nothing to do with uniformitarianism as it relates to earth science.
What I
can handle is assuming that Dad simply doesn't "get" algebra. Something almost universally is taught here in the U.S. in middle school.
What I
assume is that Dad, like so many who don't really understand science but hope to "bluff their way through" and want to
sound like science do what little kids do and "ape" the science or math. That is what Dad appears to be doing.
In addition he doesn't seem to even understand that in algebra you can use
letters that can stand in for just about anything to show the form of the equation.
And your unwavering dedication to it sets up mental blocks that you guys can't get around
You can't truly be serious here, AV. You got an AA degree in what, comp sci? wasn' it? Surely
you understand simple algebra.
So that must mean you think that at some time in the past
mathematical constructs behaved differently.
This calls into question the very foundations of understanding. It is one thing if you wish to call into question the
meaning of words but when you call into question the very nature of mathematical relationships then you are left without
any anchor to understand anything.
Here's an example for you:
In this "bizarro world" where the laws of basic math don't hold then we can no longer assume that the Genesis story
makes sense to ANYONE, even Biblical Literalists. ESPECIALLY Biblical Literalists because nothing can be understood about that time if it was related from that time to "now" when the laws of basic math (and presumably logic) held no sway.
Now of course as Gracchus pointed out if A*B/C = C*A then B must equal C[sup]2[/sup], but Dad did us one better and told us specifically what all the terms were:
A = FL ("a star")
B = FL ("Former Light Speed")
C = W ("God's Will")
Ergo unless you and dad think that God's will is something that can be expressed in terms of square root (distance/time) then I think you need to pick your defences a bit better.
(In reality Dad stated that B*A/C but he didn't put any parentheses in and besides it doesn't much matter when dealing with multiplication/division.)
, resulting in rookie errors, faux pas, playing Telephone, bad word choices, improper use of synonyms, etc.
But I'm not doing
any of that. I'm merely pointing out Dad's errrors of math.
IF, heaven forbid, he could
explain what he means and it didn't sound like "word salad" I'd be willing to give him a pass.
But unless he's going to come right out and tell us that God's Will has units of "square root distance/square root time" then I think we all know
exactly what Dad is doing. We've all seen little kids aping the adults and trying to
sound like them.
Set your uniformitarianism aside for a moment and try and realize that with God, 1 + 1 + 1 = 1.
No.
Man said that when he attempted to understand the Trinity. God didn't say 1+1+1=1. The bible, as interpretted by various scholars in the early church requires that Jesus be both wholly man and wholly God and that the Holy Spirit+Father+Son were
one being. IF that is indeed true in any real-world sense it doesn't say that 1+1+1=1. It says that
this particular item stands apart from anything we can possibly understand.
(You will note, I'm sure, that there were many differing opinions on the nature of Jesus as divine/human during the early centuries of the Christian church, so if God said it it required quite some time for man to "find it" in the Word.)
Now if you think God said 1+1+1=1 then you must be unable to function in the world. IF, however, you think that Jesus is a
completely isolated case then you are not talking about math in general.
And that's just a mild example --- remember the feeding of the 5000?
Yeah. I believe that is why they are called MIRACLES.
Yes, even "perfect" math must bow to catastrophism, when God is crunching the numbers.
No, what you mean is God not only
can be but sometimes IS totally arbitrary in how he deals with simple human minds. He sets up the rules only to knock 'em down. Hides himself so people have to seek him out, and then shakes up everything we know for what reason? To have some "fun"?
Sorry, I don't buy this "God-Math" any more than I buy the deceiver God of "Embedded Age".
But, again, he isn't
my God. So if you want to worship
that then by all means. Enjoy.
Just don't work behind the counter at the fast-food restaurant when I pay for my Happy Meal.
(And I truly wish you could know how hard it is for me to pick on
anyone's math skills. But when someone comes on like bull in a china shop like Dad does I'm going to stand up equally strong.)
