One of our new read-alouds in Morning Time this term is String, Straightedge, and Shadow: The Story of Geometry by Julia E Diggins. It is not written from a creationist perspective, so there are the obligatory chapters about “prehistoric” man. But we read books from both a creationist and evolutionist perspective in our homeschool and discuss them. It is actually fascinatingly frustrating to read something written from an evolutionary perspective that then talks about law and order – people just cannot escape the witness of God in His creation. Such is the following passage from Chapter 2:
Consider the snowflakes. These six-petaled ice flowers are hammered and forged in the upper air by the forces of wind and cold. They are always six-sided – that is their law – yet each one is different. So there is freedom within the law. And it is the study of variations within the law that makes mathematics so fascinating, and by no means easy. For mathematics goes beyond the simple and familiar into the realm of the abstract and the imagination.
Also read/listened to recently:
- Hubby: finished John Adams by David McCullough
- Me: Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie – interesting enough, but a very implausible ending
- Miss A: not too thrilled with The Vicar of Wakefield so far – maybe it will get more exciting
- Mr. D: narrating the gory scenes in the Iliad with relish 😉
- Mr. E: listening and reading along to Kidnapped
- Little L: some of the “About” series of animal books by Cathryn and John Sill
- Little R: The Big Green Pocketbook by Candice F. Ransom and Felicia Bond – love the descriptions in this book!
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Yes, the unregenerate worship the creation rather than the Creator. Thanks for the quote about the snowflakes; I’ll pass it on to my husband, who is a mathematician and physicist.