Re: Mathematics and God

From: N:dlzc D:aol T:com \(dlzc\) (net_at_nospam.com)
Date: 08/08/04 

Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 08:39:44 -0700

Dear Franco:

"Franco" <englishenglish@tin.it> wrote in message
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> N:dlzc D:aol T:com (dlzc) > ha scritto nel messaggio ...
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> Hi David,
>
> please, see my reply to Bill Hobba.
> Here I can add that you are right. Our environment(society and so on)
> plagiarizes children, little boys.
>
> What i call "plagiarism" is when a child(a person that can't distinguish
> what is true and what is false) believe his parents, and he learnd and
> believe that because his/hers parents teach that to him/her.

Ah! The word you seek to use is "indoctrinate".

> I hope that this does not happen in the case of science(see my last words
in
> reply to Bill, please).
>
> I think that science must not convince as a faith you teach to children,
> science must be something that our reason accept and not our "heart".

Consider the organism that you are expecting this behavior from. We have a
mind, and a "heart". And some of us use one or both in various
proportions. If civilization is to be constructed of such "odd sized
stones", some indoctrination is bound to be taking place. For many members
of the civilization, it will be "close enough".

Suppose we taught GR in school from day 1, giving credit to Newton and so
on, but not the "wrong" formulae.
Suppose your grandchild learned it, in time to confront a fully developed
Quantum Gravity in higher grades at school. He/she would feel the same as
you.

Theories come, and theories go. They are only models, however successful.
The truth is that change is inevitable. And Newton *still* serves a whole
host of problems in daily life.

David A. Smith

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