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?"
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How do you make calculus religious?
"I was taking calculus. I was a mathematics major and I was at a Christian college that was called Christian, but was not Christian...."Translation: "It was not as hard line Fundie as I know it should be."
"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..."
Because it's a stupid question.
"He said, 'Okay, I'm a Christian; you're a Christian.'"
As far as math is concerned, that really should sum it up.
"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?'"
You think that Christians should have their own version of mathematics? What 2+2=5? Story problems adding 3 wise men to 12 apostles? Pi = 3? Oh, wait a minute...
You really are an idiot. In Xian math, if one adds a Fundie's IQ to his shoe size, is the result a positive number?
In answer to your last question, one is called a "christian" college to dupe idiots out of their tuition money. No university or college, that I am aware of, is called a "non-christian" college.
Well, one could explain that Calculus was developed (in part) by devout Christian Isaac Newton. From Wikipedia :Though he is better known for his love of science, the Bible was Sir Isaac Newton's greatest passion. He devoted more time to the study of Scripture than to science, and said, "I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily."
Of course, tell it to a fundie, and they'll just reiterate that since it ain't in the KJV bible, it's gotta be witchcraft and therefore mathematicians should burn at the stake.
Educate a fool, and you do not get a genius. You merely get an educated fool.
I suspected for a time that math theorems go against divine omnipotence. In a Christian calculus course, THERE IS a bijective conformal map between the unit disk and the whole complex plane, because with God all things are possible, even those proven to be impossible by Riemann.
One of the most common curricula used (both in dominionist homeschools as well as private religious schools operated by dominionist churches) is called "A Beka" which is apparently a company started approximately thirty years ago by Pensacola Christian College."Unlike the "modern math" theorists, who believe that mathematics is a creation of man and thus arbitrary and relative, we believe that the laws of mathematics are a creation of God and thus absolute. All of the laws of mathematics are God's laws. Our knowledge of God's absolute mathematical laws may be incomplete or at times in error, but that merely shows human frailty, not relativity in mathematics. Man's task is to search out and make use of the laws of the universe, both scientific and mathematical.
"A Beka Book provides attractive, legible, workable traditional mathematics texts that are not burdened with modern theories such as set theory... Besides training students in the basic skills that they will need all their lives, the A Beka Book traditional mathematics books teach students to believe in the absolutes of the universe, to work diligently to get right answers, and to see the facts of mathematics as part of the truth and order that God has built into the real universe."
This is only a portion of what can be read on this site; the science section is terrifying. It's no wonder these people are so woefully ignorant.
http://www.abeka.com/
Why doesn't the teacher just tell him that you can use calculus, one of whose bases is geometry, to find out the measurements of Noah's Ark and Jesus' cross, and all those nifty little religious symbols?
Actually, mathematics ceased to be considered a sort of divine knowledge hardly a century ago.
But if you want something truly laden with odd and occult practices, you might want to look into computer science. I've had some success with improving my python with Voodoo, but maybe an old-fashioned excorcism helps, too.
I guess you guys would have kicked Thomas Edison out of school, too, for asking too many questions!
If his questions had nothing at all to do with the class subject material other than to criticize it for not falling in line with his religion, quite possibly.
Christian math:
If an integer n is greater than 2, then the equation a^n + b^n = c^n has no solutions in non-zero integers a, b, and c
Proof: Because God made it so. An integer solution would be unnatural, and the very thought of it makes me want to vomit.
Nobody had ever asked him that before because it's a stupid question!
@SSJPunk
If there were such a silly thing as a Christian proof of Fermat's last theorem that would probably be it.
Because who needs difficult, rigorous, logical things like modular forms and Galois representations anyways? /s
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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