Monday, September 26, 2005

Intelligent Math

Mathematics? I think it’s time we stopped teaching a bunch of unproven theorems to kids or we should at least give them the other side of the debate.

After all, if math had been designed intelligently, as everything else has been, it would be easier to understand. If I don’t understand it, if it looks too complicated to be true, some other conjecture must equally be valid – as long as it conforms to my religious beliefs.

You know, many mathematicians no longer believe there is any such number as Pi – they’ve been trying to calculate it exactly for centuries and they still have to admit it’s not rational. I mean, you even hear them admitting that they just imagine some numbers. Really, things like String Theory just don’t explain the solid, simple and eternal nature of everything. Has anyone actually seen 11 dimensional Kalabi-Yao space? I don’t think so.

And what about Fourier Transforms and LaGrange multipliers? French ideas meant to corrupt American children.

Mathematics leads to things like Relativity and the Uncertainty Principle, which are morally reprehensible ideas - responsible for things like school shootings and hurricanes. There can only be one truth after all and there are no problems that cannot be understood by reading the Bible or solved by giving a tax cut to Halliburton.

No Mathematics is just another kind of Faith and there is no reason to believe in it any more than the idea that the universe is ruled by miracle.

3 comments:

Crankyboy said...

Math has too many numbers anyway. Ban it. That would leave more time to study about the Lord because if there is one thing job interviewers in Bush world want to know is your relationship with JC.

Capt. Fogg said...

JC? James Carville?

phinky said...

I had a JC vision yesterday, he was driving a red Corvette and talking on his cell phone. Then there was the JC vision I had in Barnes and Noble four weeks ago, and he was talking on his cell phone.
Yes, James Carville talks on his cell phone a lot.