Quantitative Reasoning or things that can be expressed or reasoned about mathematically or quantitatively is a type of intelligence. If we could look at phenomenon and identify mathematical patterns that could be discussed or understood through quantitative reasoning this would be objective evidence of the Intelligence of the Force we call God. Lets go to Chemistry. Examination of the structure of the known elements that make up the universe reveal a mathematical progression or pattern in the formation of electrons.
The first shell of an atom can hold a maximum of 2 electrons, the second shell 8, the third 18 and the fourth 32. This gives us the following mathematical progression: 2(1)2 2(2)2 2(3)2 2(4)2
This arrangement of electrons is the same pattern of the elements when they are arranged on the periodic table. In the first row of the periodic table there are 2 elements Hydrogen and Helium, in rows 2 & 3 we find there are 8 elements in each row, in rows 4 and 5 we find 18 elements in each, in row 6 we find 32 elements and in row 7 we find 23 elements. The last row does not break the pattern, it contains elements that are so unstable that the limit of integration has been reached before reaching the 32nd possible element.
Some how scientist have missed the fact that following the so called Big Bang the creation of elements proceeded according to strict mathematical rules. All elements are made up of the same components, just configured differently. The progression from one element to the next follows a strict mathematical pattern, in which the underlying properties of each element are repeated in the element 8 places away.
What we have here is the fact that long before a living thing could have come into being to create intelligence, there is something acting in a very intelligent way, in the creation of the atom and the elements. One thing is for a pattern to occur as an organizing force inside the atom. Seeing it acting again as an organizing force outside the atom reinforces the idea of an organizing intelligent presence at work. Following the Big Bang is not a simple cooling down process from which the various atoms are created, or however else scientist may discover the creation takes place. What is a fact, however the process occurs, is that there is a numerical basis to it. There is evidence of intelligence behind it. This I think is evidence for us to believe or at least ponder about the presence of this bodiless intelligence and force. We perceive God's presence through its Intelligence. It is the intelligence behind all of the laws of nature, which can be understood through qualitative logic or quantitative logic (mathematics).
Quantitative Reasoning
No doubt most students are familiar with the Scientific Method and how it has revolutionized the way we look at the world. Partly, mathematics is what makes the Scientific Method work. By virtue of its objectivity and abstractness, mathematics provides the magnificent language to express scientific laws and principles.
Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642), one of the prime movers of the Scientific Method, said: “[The universe] cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word.”
That mathematics plays an important role in understanding the world was recognized much earlier than the Renaissance. Two millennia before Galileo, Pythagoras (c. 570 – 500 BCE) believed that, at its deepest level, reality is mathematical. In fact, in the Greek philosophical tradition, mathematics plays such an indispensable role that Plato (427 – 347 BCE) put the sign “Let no one unversed in geometry enter here” above the entrance to his famous Academy.
Indeed, mathematics is used not only in science, but in all areas of knowledge. A quick look at the newspapers would readily convince anyone that a lot of information is given quantitatively, and hence rigorous quantitative reasoning is crucial in the critical evaluation of information.
The Quantitative Reasoning area of the University Scholars Programme highlights how mathematical and quantitative reasoning play an important role in intellectual pursuits as well as everyday living. It not only offers modules that examine the nature and methodologies of mathematics, and how simple mathematical principles and models can help us understand the complex world, but also those that look at how mathematical and statistical thinking can help us make cogent arguments and logical decisions in everyday practical situations.
The idea that living things came into being as the result of a chance combination of molecules derived its strength from the belief that what distinguished living matter from inanimate matter was the "irritability"(responsiveness to the environment) of the former-This "irratability" translated somehow into the ability to adapt to the environment, through feeding, growth, mobility, reproduction, and the host of metabolic functions that are characterisitc of living things.
The idea that the foundation of life was in the "irritability" of living matter (protoplasm) could have been excused until 1953 when JD Watson and FH Crick, two scientist at Cambridge University discovered that the phenomena that characterizes the expression of living things is based on four proteins; adenine, designated in molecular biology as A, thymine, T, guanine, G and cytosine, C. These four chemicals which account for all structural and functional phenonmena in living things accomplish their goal through a strict and complex mathematical process. All four are arranged three at a time as a double-stranded helix in different ways to form another molecule - DNA, which is the fundamental unit underlying genes. Their arrangement yields 64 combinations out of which the vast diversity o living forms in nature is produced. The conclusion is that INFORMATION, DESIGN, PATTERN, MATHEMATICAL THINKING and not "irritability are at the foundation of the creation of living matter. Not a single living form could come into being without this complex, very complex mathematical design at its foundation. We must conclude, then that it is INTELLIGENCE that created living things, and not the other way around. And this intelligence does not have a body! What? Who is it? What is the extent of this intelligence? Do not scientist have proof of its omniscience? What scientist have learned from nature to what is there to be known is like a grain of sand to the universe.
Where things occur, that is, actions take place there must be energy at work. In the process of the creation of the world and of living things, it is clear that intelligence is guiding the energy that is responsible for carrying out the work. This bodiless power is the Spirit of God. With this in mind, it would be foolish to ignore the fact that behind the intelligence and energy at work there must be a bodiless consciousness with a bodiless will with a purpose. The evidence for its existence is logically deductible from mathematics. Do you see, hear, feel, taste or smell God? Has anyone experienced gravity as a force of attraction between themselves and any other body? Yet the law of gravitation says that any two masses in the universe attract each other with a force (F) that is quantifiable (mathematically expressed) in the following formula:
F= GmM
______
r2
Where F is the force, m is the mass of some object, M is the mass of the earth, r is the distance from the center of the earth to the object, and G is a constant under all conditions. I am giving this example to bring home the point that we cannot understand gravity without what is evidenced from mathematics for the fact that the operative factors are beyond the grasp of the senses. The scientist ability to understand the force of gravitation in order to project missles into outer space and so on was not derived from the sense experience of weight, which is the common experience of gravity. In fact, we don't experience weight as the operation of an attractive force. The same applies to the knowledge of the existence of God as evidenced by mathematics. It allows us to acquire knowledge of the existence of all quantifiable events that cannot be perceived through the senses.
The point is diven home by the understanding that we are able to think mathematically because we have been endowed with the capacity to do so by God. We could have been made dumb and totally insensible to such notions like asses and all other creatures. Were this so, the mathematical patterns underlying the creation of physical matter, and living things would still be there. It has totally escaped the understanding of western scientist that scientific thinking is the expression of the ability to recongnize the quantifiable side of the world. Quantitative reasoning, the backbone of science, is nothing more than man's thinking following the manner in which processes occur in the world. If nature was not built on quantifiable patterns, then quantitative reasoning about natural events would totally useless, and foolish. Man does not create or invent science. Scientist do not invent, they discover the science (information) stored in nature - an embodiment of God's designing intelligence.
I must end by saying it is distorted thinking which vexes minds with regard to science and the Divine. There is no contradiction here. The author of this distorted thinking is of course Europeans who through the predominance of the left brain are cornered into believing that they must either consciously or unconsciously reject either religion or science in order to accept either. This is not the way of the African or indeed many other non-white cultures.
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The first shell of an atom can hold a maximum of 2 electrons, the second shell 8, the third 18 and the fourth 32. This gives us the following mathematical progression: 2(1)2 2(2)2 2(3)2 2(4)2
This arrangement of electrons is the same pattern of the elements when they are arranged on the periodic table. In the first row of the periodic table there are 2 elements Hydrogen and Helium, in rows 2 & 3 we find there are 8 elements in each row, in rows 4 and 5 we find 18 elements in each, in row 6 we find 32 elements and in row 7 we find 23 elements. The last row does not break the pattern, it contains elements that are so unstable that the limit of integration has been reached before reaching the 32nd possible element.
Some how scientist have missed the fact that following the so called Big Bang the creation of elements proceeded according to strict mathematical rules. All elements are made up of the same components, just configured differently. The progression from one element to the next follows a strict mathematical pattern, in which the underlying properties of each element are repeated in the element 8 places away.
What we have here is the fact that long before a living thing could have come into being to create intelligence, there is something acting in a very intelligent way, in the creation of the atom and the elements. One thing is for a pattern to occur as an organizing force inside the atom. Seeing it acting again as an organizing force outside the atom reinforces the idea of an organizing intelligent presence at work. Following the Big Bang is not a simple cooling down process from which the various atoms are created, or however else scientist may discover the creation takes place. What is a fact, however the process occurs, is that there is a numerical basis to it. There is evidence of intelligence behind it. This I think is evidence for us to believe or at least ponder about the presence of this bodiless intelligence and force. We perceive God's presence through its Intelligence. It is the intelligence behind all of the laws of nature, which can be understood through qualitative logic or quantitative logic (mathematics).
Quantitative Reasoning
No doubt most students are familiar with the Scientific Method and how it has revolutionized the way we look at the world. Partly, mathematics is what makes the Scientific Method work. By virtue of its objectivity and abstractness, mathematics provides the magnificent language to express scientific laws and principles.
Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642), one of the prime movers of the Scientific Method, said: “[The universe] cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word.”
That mathematics plays an important role in understanding the world was recognized much earlier than the Renaissance. Two millennia before Galileo, Pythagoras (c. 570 – 500 BCE) believed that, at its deepest level, reality is mathematical. In fact, in the Greek philosophical tradition, mathematics plays such an indispensable role that Plato (427 – 347 BCE) put the sign “Let no one unversed in geometry enter here” above the entrance to his famous Academy.
Indeed, mathematics is used not only in science, but in all areas of knowledge. A quick look at the newspapers would readily convince anyone that a lot of information is given quantitatively, and hence rigorous quantitative reasoning is crucial in the critical evaluation of information.
The Quantitative Reasoning area of the University Scholars Programme highlights how mathematical and quantitative reasoning play an important role in intellectual pursuits as well as everyday living. It not only offers modules that examine the nature and methodologies of mathematics, and how simple mathematical principles and models can help us understand the complex world, but also those that look at how mathematical and statistical thinking can help us make cogent arguments and logical decisions in everyday practical situations.
The idea that living things came into being as the result of a chance combination of molecules derived its strength from the belief that what distinguished living matter from inanimate matter was the "irritability"(responsiveness to the environment) of the former-This "irratability" translated somehow into the ability to adapt to the environment, through feeding, growth, mobility, reproduction, and the host of metabolic functions that are characterisitc of living things.
The idea that the foundation of life was in the "irritability" of living matter (protoplasm) could have been excused until 1953 when JD Watson and FH Crick, two scientist at Cambridge University discovered that the phenomena that characterizes the expression of living things is based on four proteins; adenine, designated in molecular biology as A, thymine, T, guanine, G and cytosine, C. These four chemicals which account for all structural and functional phenonmena in living things accomplish their goal through a strict and complex mathematical process. All four are arranged three at a time as a double-stranded helix in different ways to form another molecule - DNA, which is the fundamental unit underlying genes. Their arrangement yields 64 combinations out of which the vast diversity o living forms in nature is produced. The conclusion is that INFORMATION, DESIGN, PATTERN, MATHEMATICAL THINKING and not "irritability are at the foundation of the creation of living matter. Not a single living form could come into being without this complex, very complex mathematical design at its foundation. We must conclude, then that it is INTELLIGENCE that created living things, and not the other way around. And this intelligence does not have a body! What? Who is it? What is the extent of this intelligence? Do not scientist have proof of its omniscience? What scientist have learned from nature to what is there to be known is like a grain of sand to the universe.
Where things occur, that is, actions take place there must be energy at work. In the process of the creation of the world and of living things, it is clear that intelligence is guiding the energy that is responsible for carrying out the work. This bodiless power is the Spirit of God. With this in mind, it would be foolish to ignore the fact that behind the intelligence and energy at work there must be a bodiless consciousness with a bodiless will with a purpose. The evidence for its existence is logically deductible from mathematics. Do you see, hear, feel, taste or smell God? Has anyone experienced gravity as a force of attraction between themselves and any other body? Yet the law of gravitation says that any two masses in the universe attract each other with a force (F) that is quantifiable (mathematically expressed) in the following formula:
F= GmM
______
r2
Where F is the force, m is the mass of some object, M is the mass of the earth, r is the distance from the center of the earth to the object, and G is a constant under all conditions. I am giving this example to bring home the point that we cannot understand gravity without what is evidenced from mathematics for the fact that the operative factors are beyond the grasp of the senses. The scientist ability to understand the force of gravitation in order to project missles into outer space and so on was not derived from the sense experience of weight, which is the common experience of gravity. In fact, we don't experience weight as the operation of an attractive force. The same applies to the knowledge of the existence of God as evidenced by mathematics. It allows us to acquire knowledge of the existence of all quantifiable events that cannot be perceived through the senses.
The point is diven home by the understanding that we are able to think mathematically because we have been endowed with the capacity to do so by God. We could have been made dumb and totally insensible to such notions like asses and all other creatures. Were this so, the mathematical patterns underlying the creation of physical matter, and living things would still be there. It has totally escaped the understanding of western scientist that scientific thinking is the expression of the ability to recongnize the quantifiable side of the world. Quantitative reasoning, the backbone of science, is nothing more than man's thinking following the manner in which processes occur in the world. If nature was not built on quantifiable patterns, then quantitative reasoning about natural events would totally useless, and foolish. Man does not create or invent science. Scientist do not invent, they discover the science (information) stored in nature - an embodiment of God's designing intelligence.
I must end by saying it is distorted thinking which vexes minds with regard to science and the Divine. There is no contradiction here. The author of this distorted thinking is of course Europeans who through the predominance of the left brain are cornered into believing that they must either consciously or unconsciously reject either religion or science in order to accept either. This is not the way of the African or indeed many other non-white cultures.
ONE
If you want to try to debate that quantitative logic is not intelligence then I await your response. What you have responded is incomprehensible nonsense which suggests you are incapable of even attempting a rebuttal and that's okay just be honest enough to say you can't muster a response rather then the sophomoric nonsense you posted.
may you show many the road to the "promised land."
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