From: Eric Jablow <ejablow at cox.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Intelligent Design and Bush
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 20:06:41 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Aug 2, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Madeleine Yeh wrote:

> George Bush has advocated teaching "Intelligent Design".
>  Can I advocate teaching that the Pythagoreans were
> correct and irrational numbers are evil?  I don't believe
> numbers are evil, Eric so don't jump on me.  George won't

I don't jump upon people without their specific permission.
On the other hand, some numbers are amicable: 220 and 284,
for example.  They're even in the Bible!  And, John Horton
Conway has named certain integers evil and others odious, in
Berlekamp, Conway, and Guy, "Winning Ways".

Very few Jews treat the Bible literally.  No Jew I know believes
that HaShem created the world in exactly six days.  We know
about metaphor and moral teachings.  We can discuss this
off-line.

Respectfully,
Eric Jablow