{"id":18348,"date":"2011-04-21T17:41:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T21:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=18348"},"modified":"2011-04-21T17:51:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T21:51:58","slug":"an-amazing-creator-a-brilliant-minister-and-other-related-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/04\/21\/an-amazing-creator-a-brilliant-minister-and-other-related-items\/","title":{"rendered":"An amazing Creator, a brilliant minister and other related items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>From DSC:<br \/>\n<\/strong>First of all, I ran across this item:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.revolutionanalytics.com\/2011\/04\/250-years-of-bayes-theorem.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18349\" title=\"BayesTheorem\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/BayesTheorem.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"250 years of Bayes Theorem -- a brilliant minister and mathematician; the man behind Bayes Theorem\" width=\"636\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/BayesTheorem.jpg 636w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/BayesTheorem-150x111.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Which reminded me of this item:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/viewpure.com\/_SWhCdvkjWM\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18350\" title=\"TheySayGodDoesNotExist-thenwhataboutHisFingerprints\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/TheySayGodDoesNotExist-thenwhataboutHisFingerprints.jpg\" alt=\"And they say God does not exist -- and I ask, then what about His fingerprints?\" width=\"557\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/TheySayGodDoesNotExist-thenwhataboutHisFingerprints.jpg 557w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/TheySayGodDoesNotExist-thenwhataboutHisFingerprints-145x150.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Which reminded me of some great feedback from <strong>Randall Pruim, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Calvin College, <\/strong>who wasn&#8217;t impressed with the importance or mysteriousness of this particular sequence or the above video clip&#8230;but who also provided me with some papers, each with the words &#8220;<strong>The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics<\/strong>&#8221; in the  title:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wigner, E. (Feb., 1960). The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences.<em> Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics<\/em>, Vol. 13(1).\u00a0 New York: John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc.\u00a0 Retrieved at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~matc\/MathDrama\/reading\/Wigner.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~matc\/MathDrama\/reading\/Wigner.html<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Hamming, R.W. (Feb., 1980).\u00a0 The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics.\u00a0 <em>The American Mathematical Monthly,<\/em> Vol. 87(2). pp. 81-90. Retrieved from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.lsa.umich.edu\/~mduchin\/UCD\/111\/readings\/hamming.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.math.lsa.umich.edu\/~mduchin\/UCD\/111\/readings\/hamming.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Anyway, I can&#8217;t say I understand all of this. But I believe God&#8217;s fingerprints <em>are <\/em>on many events, things, and changes that we experience &#8212; some of these things we see, but many are invisible.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>May your Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter morning be especially meaningful this year for you and yours! Here&#8217;s to our Creator, Redeemer, and Friend!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Peace,<br \/>\nDaniel Christian<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: First of all, I ran across this item: &nbsp; Which reminded me of this item: Which reminded me of some great feedback from Randall Pruim, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Calvin College, who wasn&#8217;t impressed with the importance or mysteriousness of this particular sequence or the above video clip&#8230;but who also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,135,82,425,163,284],"tags":[315,702,636,610,772,162,416,709],"class_list":["post-18348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-design","category-engineering","category-faith","category-mathematics","category-physics","tag-astronomy","tag-creativity","tag-design","tag-engineering","tag-faith-wisdom","tag-math","tag-philosophy","tag-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18348"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18361,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18348\/revisions\/18361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}