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The Truth is digital

From the June 2011 issue of The Christian Science Journal


When I was growing up, it was an analog world. 

If one had to express this concept of analog in philosophical terms, I guess the best way would be to describe it as a gray area. Think of white at one end, and black at the other end, and then everything in between as some shade of gray. 

That’s how we often view life and truth, isn’t it?—as shades of gray. The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines analog as “. . . data [that] is represented by continuously variable physical quantities.” If one had to graph data from a physics or math class, for example, the graph would usually look like the side view of a roller coaster with the line going up and down in a continuous motion. “Analog” is highs and lows—and then all the values that stretch between those two points. Computers changed all that.

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