All the problems with Christianity

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I re-read my original argument to thry and see what was wrong with it. Apparently I'm not as good at explaining my argument as I thought. Undecided
That said, our ability to do math cannot just come from our brains. If it did, we would still be able to add, but we would be clueless as to why addition worked the way it did. Surely even with a simple math problem like 6+9, which you have known for many years, it never came as a surprise to you that 15 was the answer. You didn't just know that when you put 6 and 9 together, you get 15 somehow. You understand what it means to have 6 of something, to have 9 more of them and to put the 6 and 9 together. It's the understanding part that has to come from somewhere else other than our brains.

Again no. Think of a small child learning to add for the first time. Children learn to add 2+2 without understanding it at first. The teacher may illustrate it -

"I have 2 oranges you have 2 oranges - how many do we have together?"

The child may well, at that point, facing addition for the first time, count the oranges and proudly announce "Four."

In other words - we learn maths slowly. The thing is - we are not unique in this ability. Many animals can count and do addition.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121128...-can-count

The above is one link- there are many to the Google search "What animals can count?"

Did God teach these species to add too? Why just these species?

It really does seem to come from our brains. That we can later apply meaning to mathematics (within limits) is merely a result of our higher brain centres.