(February 13, 2010 at 2:44 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I don't care to respond for a couple reasons:Ha, if anything your 0.999 thread is an annoying facade to portray your self-acclaimed mathematical superiority. But if you cannot see that I've presented my argument in the tradition of the socratic method you disqualify for further debate on it.
1) I don't care for people who form some kind of annoying facade in order to get to a point. If you wanted to debate mathematics vs. nature, you should have come out with it plainly.
2) I'm not interested in the subject of mathematics as a supernatural concept; I think it's a way of human reasoning. You could equally suggest that logic was a supernatural concept too, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
I'm sure there are others who would discuss it with you, so by all means start a thread somewhere. Who knows, you might say something I can't resist responding to. The only reason I mentioned mathematics here is because BioLogos is a math teacher, and the most vivid example of our discussions of mathematics on the forums are the 0.999... = 1 debate.
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Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
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Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0