ABSTRACT: Recent political efforts to broaden the scope of science education and bring science into the mainstream have generated a great deal of controversy. One of the things that has been sorely missing is the relationship between mathematics and religion. Here we attempt to inject a greater mathematical essence into religion as well as explore one immediate implication, the Immaculate Induction Hypothesis. 1. INTRODUCTION: We focus on the injection of a greater mathematical sensibility within the religious community and examine the resulting implications. In doing so we agree that intelligent design is a valid viewpoint, but ask what this implies.…
The Science Creative Quarterly
By kellyblack
Kelly Black is an associate professor of mathematics at Union College in Schenectady NY (USA). His favorite activity is riding his bicycle. Unfortunately, outside of those few weeks New Yorkers call "summer" he must augment cycling with the exploration of mathematics and writing software. His research focus is on the numerical approximation of partial differential equations.