mapou wrote:Mathematicians can kiss my asteroid because they have a lame pony in this race. They’re already on the record for claiming that infinity exists and they will look bad if the opposite is shown to be true. Mathematicians are political/religious animals just like Darwinists, therefore they are not to be trusted.

My peers are the public. If a concept cannot be explained in simple terms that the average intelligent layperson can understand, it’s crap, IMO.

kennyc wrote:The Butlerian Jihad!

mapou wrote:Mathematicians are political/religious animals just like Darwinists, therefore they are not to be trusted.

Rumraket wrote:I'm so sorry to inflict this black hole of stupid upon you, but I just had to share this one which was spotted on Uncommon Descent:

mapou wrote:Mathematicians can kiss my asteroid because they have a lame pony in this race. They’re already on the record for claiming that infinity exists and they will look bad if the opposite is shown to be true. Mathematicians are political/religious animals just like Darwinists, therefore they are not to be trusted.

My peers are the public. If a concept cannot be explained in simple terms that the average intelligent layperson can understand, it’s crap, IMO.

link.

Rarely does something so unambiguously encapsulate the anti-science sentiments of the anti-evolution movement as that comment. There's politics and religion in math.

I am scared by mathematics.
Therefore it is wrong.

I am thick.
Therefore you are wrong