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.
10 + 6 = 16 and 10 + 6 = 4.
ReplyDeleteWe do both types of math calculations every day.
Math is invented, not discovered. A series of postulates, axioms, notions are states and theorems are derived from them. This constitutes a mathematical system. We we apply it to the natural world we sometimes choose the mathematical system where 10 + 6 = 16 and sometimes where 10 + 6 = 4.
I would hesitate to link theology to a invented and arbitrary system of knowledge.
(Note : math being invented does not make it useless, rather it expands its utility. If math had to be discovered we'd be much pooer for that.)