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In reply to the discussion: Can Science and Mathematics coexist? [View all]stone space
(6,498 posts)...the White Queen.
I think that it hits on a important and fundamental part of the nature of modern mathematics.
We really do believe six impossible things before breakfast (or at least six contradictory things).
It would be interesting to know just how much of the controversy between belief and science is really about belief per say, and how much of it is about a general hostility to religion, having little or nothing to do with belief.
Are folks who decry belief in general as being incompatible with science really serious, or is "belief" itself just a target of convenience for folks opposed to religion?
Some of the current arguments made in religion vs science debates mirror past controversies within mathematics, so I sometimes look to the history of my own subject in an attempt to understand them.