March 29, 2005

Does God play dice?

Thank you Three-Toed Sloth -- I never would have found this set of "devotionals connected to mathematical content" without you.

How can you not laugh at passages like,

...Jesus is our least-squares solution to the impossible problem.  Note, though, that the distance between us and the law of God is infinite; through salvation in Christ, God accepts us as if the error is zero!
In addition, I'm sure Cantor would have been chagrined to find out that the answer to his continuum hypothesis was sitting in the Bible all along.

All in all, I'd say that these devotionals combined with the march towards so-called "academic freedom" mean I'm graduating in just the nick of time.

ADDITIONAL THOUGHT: I realize that the section on statistics is still a work in progress, but one part already leads to an interesting question. If, as quoted,

Among the accounts of his miracles, there are 23 healing events, 8 power over nature events, and 4 resurrections.  Surely Yahweb is truly God!
Based on this sampling, what is the standard deviation of "Yahweb's" divinity? Can we determine a 95% confidence interval for Yahweb's divinity? (These are left as exercises for the disturbed reader.)

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