Create and Build
The mathematics that has given us the assembly line has also allowed a profusion of all sorts of household and industrial goods that are accessible with ever decreasing expense and energy. Bio-mimicry is becoming an even more fertile field for innovative technology; discoveries have revealed even greater order and intricate design at the molecular level in biological systems than visible observations would ever allow. The mathematician is not creating knowledge, but finding ways of naming features and modelling processes that render the unseen into a codified form that can be manipulated using approximations of the real processes. The vastness of space can only be explored at present using mathematical techniques; the data coming into receivers has to be transformed into visible images and conjectures of the macro-level movements are only visible through virtual modelling. Again, no knowledge is possible of these colossal, but distant objects, and the only way of discovering more about such objects is through mathematical modelling. God has fashioned the far reaches of space and the smallest detail of matter and both extremes are visible to his creature through the patterns and codes provided through mathematical processing.
A Christian view of mathematics rejects those philosophies that reject the presence of a creator and assign the mathematics to a peculiar function of the human species as part of its survival mechanism. The Christian also rejects those philosophies that attempt to fabricate other realms or systems but remain a fanciful speculation of a fertile imagination. On the other hand, the Christian view assumes the creature-hood of man and the designed capacity to use mathematics to name, to locate, to explain movement, to predict structure and function, and then to plan as both an act of service to the created realm and an act of worship to the Creator.
The mathematics that has given us the assembly line has also allowed a profusion of all sorts of household and industrial goods that are accessible with ever decreasing expense and energy. Bio-mimicry is becoming an even more fertile field for innovative technology; discoveries have revealed even greater order and intricate design at the molecular level in biological systems than visible observations would ever allow. The mathematician is not creating knowledge, but finding ways of naming features and modelling processes that render the unseen into a codified form that can be manipulated using approximations of the real processes. The vastness of space can only be explored at present using mathematical techniques; the data coming into receivers has to be transformed into visible images and conjectures of the macro-level movements are only visible through virtual modelling. Again, no knowledge is possible of these colossal, but distant objects, and the only way of discovering more about such objects is through mathematical modelling. God has fashioned the far reaches of space and the smallest detail of matter and both extremes are visible to his creature through the patterns and codes provided through mathematical processing.
A Christian view of mathematics rejects those philosophies that reject the presence of a creator and assign the mathematics to a peculiar function of the human species as part of its survival mechanism. The Christian also rejects those philosophies that attempt to fabricate other realms or systems but remain a fanciful speculation of a fertile imagination. On the other hand, the Christian view assumes the creature-hood of man and the designed capacity to use mathematics to name, to locate, to explain movement, to predict structure and function, and then to plan as both an act of service to the created realm and an act of worship to the Creator.