Originally posted by dryhump
She was an algebra teacher, to answer a previous question. Plenty of teachers believe in god, to answer question one. I never said I believed her one way or the other, just wondered if anyone had seen it. I never asked her then because I didn't care. She told us about it in class and said she could get in trouble because of the seperation of church and state.
While I disagree with Twhitehead (I don't see any reason why she shouldn't teach math in high school.), I can tell you as some one who likely has more training in mathematics than her, and specifically probability and statistics, that there is not a valid proof of god using statistics. Furthermore, I can say without qualification that it cannot be done.
Twhitehead already explained why in a simple, but sufficient manner.
Finally, if you are really interested, then why don't you approach her outside of class (perhaps after school to ask her about the proof). She may tell you it or more likely point you vaguely in the direction of where to look for it. When you have a lead come back here and show us. Most likely it is Pascal's Wager, which is not actually an existence proof at all but rather an argument for being a Christian in the face of uncertainty about the existence of a god.
As for your teacher I think it is sort of fishy that she claims a proof exists and then doesn't show because of seperation of church and state. It seems that telling kids that God can be proven to exist does much more to violate the spirit of the law than explaining does.