🚀 go-pugleaf

"Tom Peel" <notreallytandp@freenet.de> wrote in message 
news:3q7jptFdiu2bU1@individual.net...
| Deuteros wrote:
| > I feel that Christian schools using math books intertwined with 
Christianity
| > might not be the right choice for Christian schools. Even if the 
text is
| > rewritten to be more consistent with the teachings of Christ, there 
is still
| > some concern. In fact, if we turn to the New Testament, we learn 
that the
| > Lord actually saw little need for subjects such as math:
| >
| > 1. When Jesus was in the temple and demanded that the money changers 
cease
| > their questionable activities, did he use pre-calculus in his 
assessment of
| > the goings-on? No! God told him what to do and he did it.
| >
| > 2. When Jesus needed to multiply the loaves and fish to feed the 
crowds, did
| > he calculate a derivative to determine how much food was needed? 
Heck no!
| > Jesus used his fingers and toes to count heads.
| >
| > 3. When Jesus was giving advice about taxes, did he use the sine and 
cosine
| > of the angle between the floor and the wall to determine what people 
should
| > do? No, he did not. Jesus used his own common sense, coupled with a 
healthy
| > fear of Caesar.
| >
| > As you can see from just these three examples, Christians do not 
need
| > calculus, nor even its predecessor, pre-calculus. If you are really 
a
| > Christian school you will not teach math at all.
|
| One of the obvious problems with mathematics is that it has been used 
by
| astronomers to calculate the age of the universe as being several
| billion years. We know for a biblical fact, however that the world is
| only 5,400 years old, so therefore mathematics must be fundamentally
| wrong, and should not be taught in schools. ;=))

Sheesh...
2005AD  - 4004BC  = -2000 without a year zero, time runs backwards.
That's the real reason we should not teach math in schools, cos its
starts an argument about 5,400 and -2000. Put up yer dukes :-)
Androcles