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Date/Time 25 Jul 2016 12:31:41pm

to his conclusions. I was thinking of the value of Ancient Greek science which, in the main, did not value observation. I would still content that science developed from the 12 Century from within Western Christianity, especially theology.

Well you should be concerned about view of mathematics is a little misplace? Anglin (1994) wrote, “Intuitionists, such as L. E. J. Brouwer (1882–1966), hold that mathematics is a creation of the human mind. Numbers, like fairy tale characters, are merely mental entities, which would not exist if there were never any human minds to think about them.” Russell and Whitehead saw maths as another form of logic. Logic is not a science and only exists in the mind. On this point, I disagree with Galileo. He seems to be taking a Platonic view of Mathematics.

Therefore, according to Brouwer, Russell, Whitehead and others it is mathematics that is surreal, not mathematics.

Finally, you’re the one who claimed that I was denigrating science. I was replying. I simply observed that people like Dawkins who have turned science back into a religion (sometimes called scientism) are the true abusers of science. I used some religious language (rather badly) to describe them.