All week I have been filling my mind with amazing mathematical concepts at a math teacher's institute. The CSU Fresno professors have been really pushing us to think "outside the box." As I was listening to people speak about rational and irrational numbers I saw the fingerprints of God and His creation.
Just in case you are unaware of what rational and irrational numbers are, let me refresh your memory:
Rational numbers are any number that can be written as a fraction or whole number. Any decimal that terminates(ends) or a decimal that has a repeating infinite pattern can be written as a fraction, so they too are Rational. I like to refer to rational numbers as the "ones we use to define real world things" (the ones we actually use)
Irrational numbers are the rest of the numbers that are "not rational." They are infinite decimals that never repeat and never end. Or as I like to say the "ones we don't use very much"
If you were to graph on a number line every rational number, in between every 2 rational numbers, there are infinite irrational numbers. Let's put that into perspective, on a number line, if you were to make the irrational numbers' location red and the rational numbers' location blue and zoom out from the number line 20X, all you would see is red. Weird that there are so many numbers THAT WE NEVER USE!!!! The professor asked "Why do you think that we spend so much time talking about the rational numbers and not as much time with irrational?" The answer was that the rational numbers matter to us as humans; they have meaning.
I began to relate this discussion to God why would God create an infinate space and an infinate amount of different matter, but send his son to die for me. If you zoom out and viewed the entire universe I am sure our galaxy wouldn't be noticable. So why? Why? Why did God send his son to die for me. Just like the we relate to the rational numbers who get lost in the number line is the reason why. We matter to God, we have meaning to God.
Infinity exists for God and we will never fully understand components of infinity because we are finite. What we truly need to focus on is that the infinity came down and made the finite matter and have meaning. As we look at the red on the number line that is God! We are the little blue dots that are drowned out by God and his power and love. Hopefully, when people see a Christian this is true about their life. Less of me and more of you God!! I just pray that I may be drowned out by the red dots!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
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