Some years ago, a physicist wrote a book called "The Age of The Earth", in which he asserted that the world was at least four and a half billion years old, basing it on sound mathematical reasoning, or so it seemed at the time.
What struck me as curious was that he was so "confident" of his reasoning that he challenged any preacher to come forward with proof, from the Bible, in a court of law to somehow "prove" whether the biblical claim of about six thousand years from the beginning of all things was true.
Now why would anyone who was so confident of his facts do something that actually undermined his own so called "proof"? So I set to find out the truth, beginning with a thorough working over of the Biblical "facts", and came up with some interesting things, like that Methuselah died in the year of the flood and that Jesus the Christ began His ministry as per the time span that Daniel the prophet had indicated, and died in the year that was prophesied. In fact, sticking just to the chronology of events, I found the Bible impeccable, and I was interested. Very interested indeed.
Then I solved the Goldbach Conjecture(see http://glodbachconjecturesolved.blogspot.com), and, in trying to answer to my own satisfaction the questions Number Theory in Mathematics aroused in proving the truth of The Conjecture, came upon the very shaky foundation the mathematics (that the physicist had used) was based on. Plainly speaking, Number Theory as it stands today would not hold water under any serious scrutiny, which, curiously, no one has ever subjected it to. The challenge was so obvious, so irresistible... .
What to do about it?
Never one to pass over an opportunity, I went hammer and tongs at Number Theory, digging out the mistakes and finding out that the origins of Mathematics were not Grecian but rather more Persian, with the first mathematician being a slave who rose to prominence and was known as Baltazzar or Belteshazzar, a Magi in Nebuchadnezzar's court. In other words, a Jewish person known as Daniel, referred to in the Bible as merely being "more skilled in the sciences than any who were [of his] time". His life was not just the pedantic academic or brilliantly administrative life of a career bureaucrat in trying times, but interlinked with the obviously unnatural and such precise predictions of the future that no human being, no matter how well versed in political chicanery, could have forecast, as well as ventures into dreams and interpretations thereof, something that is not the purview of anybody... .
This brought God, or rather HIS story, sharply in the realm of The Practical, and not merely theoretical,( at least not as we understand "theory" today). Hence the book "COUNT1NG NUMB3R5" in which the trail of mathematics is explored and brought to the origins,from a historical point of view, putting God squarely in the face of people's lives, as He has always been, only we would rather have it otherwise...? Could it be that that is why the physicist had a bee in his bonnet about the clergy? Well, I was intrigued, and intended to find out... .
!!!PROBLEM!!!
There was, however just one major setback. I knew why, for example Albert Einstein got it wrong in his famous equation that says matter can be translated into energy and vice versa, but I am into research, not teaching, so, i wanted a trade in which I spilled out ALL my guts at one go about what I know about what is so wrong about modern-day mathematics, for a chance to get my hands on the hard-to-reach relic of Noah's Ark in the mountains of Ararat, and do extensive research for my next book, The Age of The Earth; HISTORY ii (backed by hard data, and real scientific proof) then I suppose the world could benefit even as I also get something out of it.
COUNT1NG NUMB3R5
