Maybe you are a bad person, but you’ve made another bad person laugh out loud. Thank you. 
That’s just bizarre. I can’t imagine how distracting it would be to try to learn math with those constant tangential remarks injecting fundamentalist theology into every topic. A tangent is a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point. Jesus doesn’t touch just one part of our lives, but it with us at every moment. But really, bad as that is, one presumes that the book ultimately gets the math right. I shudder to think what a similiar sort of history or science texts would be like.
In a used bookstore, I once ran across several copies of a textbook with a title along the lines of “Chemistry for Christian Schools.” I’m still wishing I had bought a copy to stick in with all my other chemistry textbooks. Well, I’m sure I can still pick up a copy next time I head that way.
- And I’m terrible at math.
Three rings for the Elven kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf Lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for mortal men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne,
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie…
…now how many Rings of supreme and mystical magic power does that make, kids?
Wrong! The correct answer is, “It depends on how fast Han and Chewie’s ships are.” A parsec is a unit of distance, not time. The line in Star Wars is an artifact of an atrocious degree of scientific illiteracy on the part of the author of the screenplay. However, Star Wars geeks have come up with the tortured explanation* that the Kessel run was through a sort of intergalactic obstacle course, and Han was bragging about how short his route was. As such, knowing that Han’s route is 12 parsecs and Chewie’s is 18 tells you nothing about how long either of them will take to traverse it, and hence nothing about how long Luke will take either. 
*I could be wrong about this. I mean, wrong that it’s actually held up as an explanation for the line, not wrong that it’s a tortured explanation. It does after all make the dialogue odd, since Han is responding to Obi-Wan asking if he has a fast ship. Bragging about a daring shortcut you take through dangerous space doesn’t establish that your ship is fast.
Hot off the Bob Jones University presses:
Creationistic Calculus
with a strong emphasis on “Designed Differentiation” and “Intelligent Integration”. :rolleyes:
I, too, would like to know the answer to this.
But let’s not hijack the thread, I’ve started another to discuss this point.
The are not affiliated with Bob Jones University. It is Pensacola Christian College they are with. I know this because the Christian school I went to used A Beka and they did not approve of Bob Jones University because of their stance (at the time - the 70’s) on interacial dating and other racial issues.
I don’t remember any Christian messages in my math books, but I’m sure they’ve been revised since then. Our Principal wrote our history books herself titled, “Our Christian Heritage”. Needless to say, it was very one sided.
Isn’t the run near lots of black holes? The faster you go, the nearer to one you can get and still escape the gravitational field.
Hell if I know. The fact remains that if we accept the tortured excuse for the error in the script, there’s not enough information to answer the word problem as given.
I don’t see the point in purchasing this book. Considering that it’s going to all add up to God anyway. 
I went to a Catholic gramar school (grades 1-8). we had Religion classes, of course, and our History classes were definitely suffused with Catholic teachings and a Catholic viewpoint. But this didn’t affect any other classes. We had excellent math classes – much better than the public schools around us – but without any religion mixed in. We also had superior English Comp/Grammar classes than the surrounding Publuc schools. But, again, aside from some stories and readings that were based on lives of the saints or occurrences in parochial schools (like ours) or suchlike, no religion there, either. There wasn’t any religion in our science classes, either, but there the teaching wasn’t very good. Nor in any of our otyher classes.
Really? I’ve spent the past two years thinking that they were. Dang. Oh well, thanks for setting me straight. :o
There’s a “blackhole cluster” nearby, and the trick is getting as close as possible to the “Maw” without being in danger.
Or something like that. Lucas’s explanation is that Han is just a big bullshitter and usually talking out of his ass.