Tag Archives: math

Ever feel like a peasant begging for scraps outside of Newton’s laboratory?

June 24, 2008 – 10:22 am

From Wired’s The End of Theory: “Scientists are trained to recognize that correlation is not causation, that no conclusions should be drawn simply on the basis of correlation between X and Y (it could just be a coincidence). Instead, you must understand the underlying mechanisms that connect the two. Once you have a model, you [...]

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When God does math, can He fudge the answers?

September 4, 2007 – 11:25 am

From ABC News’ article, entitled Math: Gift from God or Work of Man?: “School begins again, and we read more about the intrusion of pseudoscience into school science curricula in this country…Although some of the creation scientists’ arguments presented have a probabilistic flavor, the mathematics curriculum has seemed somewhat resistant to this trend. Recently a [...]

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He Lured Me With Orbs

November 13, 2006 – 10:23 am

He lured me with orbs. Sitting in the cafeteria, he motioned with his hands, creating the orbs out of the air, as if he could seize a proton, stretch it, extend it until it hovered in the air before us. He looked at each of us; his eyes were glistening balls of excitement. He promised [...]

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