‘Intelligent Design’ Not Enough For Creationists, Now The Push For ‘Divine Mathematics’
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/08/08/intelligent-design-not-enough-for-creationists-now-the-push-for-divine-mathematics/August 8, 2012
By Nathaniel Downes
For years now we have seen people seeking to push the bible into the science classroom. However, the move in recent years to push the religiously based ‘charter school’ system has opened up a new front in the war to erode critical thinking skills. No longer satisfied with pushing the rubbish of Creationism or abstinence only health education, now a new model is out, attacking the foundation of mathematics itself.
The A Beka Book company provides a great deal of the literature for these religious schools. We come to expect dominionists to push for their lies about science and history, but the A Beka Book company produces a whole range of dominionist school textbooks, including a revisionist form of mathematics not based on logic nor reason but instead “mathematics are a creation of God and thus absolute.”
Here is an example, taken from the A Beka Book piece titled “The Christian Approach to Elementary Math” originally published in 1980 and still used in their latest titles:
Note they call their Divine Mathematics “traditional math” in order to make it sound acceptable to a particular group of people. They are targeting the easily deceived who then feel that they are trying to restore “tradition.” They even claim that a student does not need to understand 2+2=4, only to accept it as a sign of divinity.*
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the exchange (1st 3 numbers of the "traditional" 5 digit phone number - after the "non-traditional" atheistic area code - notice that the word "atheism" begins with the letter a and the name of this new, i.e., "non-traditional" code in front begins and ends with the letter a) 
Anyway, our new telephone number starts with 666. 
When Ms. Ashling got the phone set up the lady gave her our number, my wife chuckled. The lady immediately said "we can change that if you would like". My wife said no, that it was perfectly fine with her.
Last week we got the first call here from my mother in law. My wife hd left her cell phone in her purse in the kitchen and I heard it ring about 5 time in a row. Then the land line rang. It was my mil.
I told Ms A. that she finally had to get up the nerve to dial the 666. 
When I was working for a title insurance company in D.C. there was in the local legal news rag a legal notice filed of a request for name change. Some guy wanted to change his name to "666"
That was a real hoot for me and another title examiner there. One of the record books that frequently came up in our searches was book 666. When I used it I would leave it on his desk and vice versa.
In order to accept the fundamentalist view, one must reject biology, astronomy, geology, much of physics, some significant parts of chemistry and even mathematics.
In his De Genisi Ad Litteram -- "On the Literal Meaning of Genesis" is about as close as English can come to a translation, the literal meaning is "On Genesis to the Letter" -- Augustine of Hippo wrote
Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances,... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.
The shame is not so much that an ignorant person is laughed at, but rather that people outside the faith believe that we hold such opinions, and thus...are rejected as ignorant and unlearned. If they find a Christian mistaken in a subject that they know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions based on our teachings, how are they going to believe these teachings in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think that these teachings are filled with fallacies about facts which they have learnt from experience and reason?
Reckless and presumptuous expounders of Scripture bring about much harm when they are caught in their mischievous false opinions by those not bound by our sacred texts. And even more so when they then try to defend their rash and obviously untrue statements by quoting a shower of words from Scripture and even recite from memory passages which they think will support their case "without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make assertions." (Timothy 1)
Augustine is saying that denying science is both bad science and bad religion.
