{"id":4320,"date":"2007-08-06T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/08\/down-with-secular-mathematics\/"},"modified":"2007-08-06T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T08:20:00","slug":"down-with-secular-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/08\/down-with-secular-mathematics.html","title":{"rendered":"Down With Secular Mathematics!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

On my old blog<\/a> I made a tongue-in-cheek reference to the need for a special \u201cBiblical mathematics<\/a>\u201d if one wishes to attempt (even though it is futile) to be a \u201cBiblical literalist\u201d \u2013 defining pi as 3, allowing 13 to equal 14, and so on. Apparently I am not the only person to have this sort of idea \u2013 there is a nice parody of \u201ccreation science\u201d in the mathematical realm in the Bollingbrook Babbler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On my old blog I made a tongue-in-cheek reference to the need for a special \u201cBiblical mathematics\u201d if one wishes to attempt (even though it is futile) to be a \u201cBiblical literalist\u201d \u2013 defining pi as 3, allowing 13 to equal 14, and so on. 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