The Allen Almanac

So does this mean I don’t believe in myself?

If π=3 and the Trinity states that 3=1=God, does that mean that God is pie? Yum, sacrilicious.

…We are pantheistic at my house. For dinner we had spaghetti, and for desert we had apple pie…

This is the sort of stupidity that turns people off to Christianity.  Why not just say that the Bible was written before fractions were known and this was revealed to the Hebrews as best they could understand?  I still don’t believe that, but at least it makes some kind of sense.  Stating that Pi=3 but we are too stupid to realize it is just ridiculous.

Pharyngula has a post up from Tuesday discussing “Christian Calculus.” I guess it comes from this site originally. Basically, Dr. Paul Jehle and some other Christians are questioning why they are teaching courses at Christian colleges that have nothing to do with Christianity. To me, coming from a Southern Baptist church; I understand what they are thinking. The Bible came from God and everything else came from the world, and you are supposed to put aside what is worldly to concentrate on God.

I was taking calculus. I was a mathematics major and I was at a Christian college that was called Christian, but was not Christian….

I asked a question to my calculus professor: “What makes this course distinctly Christian?” He stopped. He said no one has ever asked that question before…

He said, “Okay, I’m a Christian; you’re a Christian.”

I said, “That’s not what I asked! What makes this calculus course distinctly Christian? What makes this different from the local secular university? Are we using the same text? Yes. Are you teaching it the same way? Yes. Then why is this called a Christian college and that one a non-Christian college?”

because the Dark Ages were so much fun.

edit: They are also talking about this at Good Math, Bad Math.

One of these would make an awesome playhouse for kids.  Too bad even a level three Menger Sponge would have to contain 8000 blocks.  Maybe when we get a house I’ll build one.  I wonder how much a 3″ cubed block of wood would cost.  Maybe I could get a bulk discount.