Religion
In reply to the discussion: Can Science and Mathematics coexist? [View all]okasha
(11,573 posts)Since I began working in ceramics, I 've used some basic algebra to interpolate glaze formulas, but that's as far beyond plain old arithmetic that my left brain gets on your average Tuesday.
However. I do think I get where stone space is going with this. Thanks to an enthusiasm for science fiction, I know that there are, for instance, a number of non-Euclidian geometries that not only do not describe our experiential universe but are in conflict with each other in their references to such things as the curvature of space, black holes, multiverses, etc. There's an anology with religion in the varying systems and their methodologies. Yet math is not inconsistent with science, even in areas where no proof exists. By the same token, varying faiths, while not consistent with each other and not subject to a true/false dichotomy, are not inconsistent with science. They're different universes, and the languages that describe them are different.