Sunday, September 7, 2014

Why Math?!?

There is only math because God said so. There are many ways to think about why there is math today and one of the "doorways" to that conversation is through spiritual/philosophical thinking. In Genesis 1:28  God says "be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air; and over every living thing that moves on the earth." And there are many things you can take away from this, but what I took from this in a mathematical point of view is that it takes more than one (thing/person) to increase and in looking at this we see that God used a mathematical term , multiply, so as I think about how math came to be, maybe that's why/how. And in this case two people reproducing to multiply population. Another doorway is personal. And math could be helpful in many, if not all things you do, for example: Being fruitful and multiplying. And being practical there is math to help define things or help find an answer that someone might not see.      

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