Rule
It is not eclectic to affirm something of what the Instrumentalists claim, that mathematical precepts are tools to be used in pursuing the tasks of exploring, building and maintaining; it is not promoting a pragmatist philosophy, for these tools are necessary in order for man to fulfil the creation mandate, administrating all of creation as God’s vicegerents. We are encouraged to be humble in our thinking, but this should not diminish the sheer grandeur of man’s calling. The Psalmist says in wonder, “What is man … that you have made him to have dominion over the works of your hands.” (Psalm 8: 4, 6) The tools calculation, or modelling, of planning, or organising and many more besides have their origin first in God, but have their outworking in the responsibility that man has for all that God has made on land, in the sea and in the air. This makes mathematical concepts and processes tools to serve God, not a philosophical basis for declaring that God is non-existent. These tools give the creature made to reign the ability to explore, cover the earth, build, nourish and fine-tune the nourishment needed to sustain large populations of the full spectrum of living creatures .
It is not eclectic to affirm something of what the Instrumentalists claim, that mathematical precepts are tools to be used in pursuing the tasks of exploring, building and maintaining; it is not promoting a pragmatist philosophy, for these tools are necessary in order for man to fulfil the creation mandate, administrating all of creation as God’s vicegerents. We are encouraged to be humble in our thinking, but this should not diminish the sheer grandeur of man’s calling. The Psalmist says in wonder, “What is man … that you have made him to have dominion over the works of your hands.” (Psalm 8: 4, 6) The tools calculation, or modelling, of planning, or organising and many more besides have their origin first in God, but have their outworking in the responsibility that man has for all that God has made on land, in the sea and in the air. This makes mathematical concepts and processes tools to serve God, not a philosophical basis for declaring that God is non-existent. These tools give the creature made to reign the ability to explore, cover the earth, build, nourish and fine-tune the nourishment needed to sustain large populations of the full spectrum of living creatures .