Reddit mentions of The Magic of Numbers

>>Why choke people with details of inconsequence?

Permit me an analogy.

Here is a book on the Windows API. Please go write Starcraft III from scratch.

Here is a book on Homotopy Type Theory. Please use it to replicate and expand on the results of Goedel and rederive a proof of Fermat's last theorem.

Here is a book on Kant. Please revisit and critique post-modern philosophy and the inherent issues it inhereits by rejecting all systemic philosophy.

It shouldn't be a problem, right? All the information here is transparent. You should not at all be confused. Ever. Because all the information is in front of you.

On the other hand, here is a book on elementary mathematical reasoning.. Use it to figure out how many combinations there are of 3 committee members from a pool of 11 (very close to a situation in the book).

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Clearly that's a terrible way to go about advancing knowledge or understanding of a subject. There is an orderly transition from beginner to experienced to contributor.

Now, one may talk as to when the appropriate time to introduce the confounding issues into the pedagogy is appropriate -- that is the whole crux of milk before meat.

The Church shouldn't care a flip about the small details of, say, Zina, because it's entirely inconsequential to the message it's taking to the world. Prophets are men like the rest of us, with a bit of a greater burden on their shoulders to teach the word of God -- meaning they have to go to God to get it. Their "credibility" is not at stake -- the invitation is, remains, and always will be to take it to God and see what he has to say about things.