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Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Seeing God and His Beauty in Math (with Jason Wilson)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

Talbot, Church, Christianity, Christian, Culture, Biola, Sean Mcdowell, Religion & Spirituality, Scott Rae, Think Biblically

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Wilson has been thinking long and hard about how the mathematical structure of the world points towards God's existence and beauty. in this interview, he explains how his understanding of math drives him to worship God more deeply and how math should motivate Christians to care about doing good in the world. And for fun, he even offers some reflections on the movie Moneyball and how statistics can help in baseball. Jason Wilson oversees the statistics service courses in the Depart...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.

0:06.7

I'm your host Sean McDowell, professor of apologetics at Taub School Theology,

0:11.7

Biola University.

0:13.0

And I'm your co-host, Scott Ray, the Dean of the Faculty, Professor of Christian Ethics,

0:17.2

also at Talbot School of Theology here at Biola University.

0:21.0

Before we dive in today's conversation, we want to just remind you that the Think

0:24.8

Bivocally podcast is made possible with the support of Talbot School of

0:28.8

theology. We would love to have you consider joining us to be trained how to study

0:33.3

scripture experience spiritual transformation and bring God's truth to a world in

0:38.5

need. Now today's guest is from Biola University. When we get a chance, we really like to highlight

0:45.4

our faculty, just the people they are, and the excellent work that they are doing.

0:50.1

Jason Wilson is the chair of mathematics and computer science.

0:54.8

Now I know right away you're thinking instantly in the back of your mind if you're listening is math.

0:59.4

Is that what we're going to talk about on the podcast today?

1:02.4

Now Jason I'm partly giving you a hard time because my wife is that what we're going to talk about on the podcast today.

1:02.6

Now, Jason, I'm partly giving you a hard time

1:04.2

because my wife is a high school math teacher.

1:06.8

So she majored in math in college.

1:09.6

And the moment she tells someone she teaches math,

1:12.1

there's like this obligation for somebody to

1:14.1

tell her how far that they made it in math and that they try to find it interesting

1:18.9

but didn't really enjoy math class for some reason they'd have to tell her that. Why do you love math?

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