RE: Scientific Debate: Why I assert that Darwin's theory of evolution is false
November 4, 2014 at 10:30 am
(November 4, 2014 at 10:11 am)robvalue Wrote: Cool. Yeah I love maths, but people get carried away with it. I think people sometimes forget that all (applied) mathematics can do is model the world. It can't prescribe what happens in the world. It's easily possible to use methods to solve equations based on a real situation, and end up with one or more solution that fit the mathematical model but make no sense in reality.
Oh, I've dealt with tons of perfectly mathematically consistent models. And then came the LHC and boom

But you know, you undersell the maths. So often, the equations have told us somehing, and it turned out to be realized in nature. Antimatter, a fourth family of fermions, the Higgs, and hundreds of things more. There is some element of truth in mathematics, a correspondence to structures in reality, even if it is only a representation, or such predictions of phenomena would not work.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition