Well, it's been a hell of a ride, laying rubber all over the road for the past decade. But it's time to call it a day and park the Rogue in the garage. Effective today, I am shutting down my blog to focus my attention on other endeavours. My thanks to the more than 2.7 million people who regularly joined me on these sojourns through news stories over the years that dealt with the places with issues of religion and faith intersecting with public affairs. May God bless you with a continuing desire to learn about and help disseminate the issues of faith throughout the public square. Happy trails in your continuing travels! Fr. Tim Moyle, p.p. Diocese of Pembroke
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.
As Feser puts it, “If universals, propositions and mathematical objections are eternal and necessarily existing entities that cannot plausibly exist apart from a mind, and such a mind could not … be a finite or limited mind like ours, it follows that they must exist in an eternal and infinite mind.”
ReplyDeleteThere is one school of thought that all mathematics is contingent, entirely a human invention. For example if I were to ask, what is 10 + 6, most people would answer 16. But in "clock math" 10 + 6 is 4. This modular arithmetic forms the basis for much of number theory and many of our proofs of mathematics would be impossible without it.
If you want to see how useful and weird it is check out http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Modular_arithmetic
Math is a human invention, no deity is needed.