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POPSMath: Gift from God or Work of Man?
The Rest Of the article. Religion in the Math Curriculum Consider first a Baptist school in Texas whose description of a geometry course begins: Students will examine the nature of God as they progress in their understanding of mathematics. Students will understand the absolute consistency of mathematical principles and know that God was the inventor of that consistency. They will see God's nature revealed in the order and precision they review foundational concepts while being able to demonstrate geometric thinking and spatial reasoning. The study of the basics of geometry through making and testing conjectures regarding mathematical and real-world patterns will allow the students to understand the absolute consistency of God as seen in the geometric principles he created. I wonder if the school teaches that non-Euclidean geometry is the work of the devil or at least of non-Christians. The Web site's account goes on like this for a while and then is followed by similar de