I was watching a "Does God Exist?" debate on youtube the other day. The christian debator, Dr. William Lane Craig, made the claim that science cannot prove mathematical and logical conclusions. Further, he claimed that science actually presupposes math, so to claim that it actually proves math would be arguing in a circle. What does the RF community make of this? Can mathematical truths be scientifically tested, or do they, so to speak, "prove" themselves?
Actually, many Christians would probably find depressing knowing what many physicists have dubbed as the forbidden knowledge (that is the knowledge that we, as individuals are "nothing" in comparison to the realm of the Eternal ... the realm in which belongs to God alone).
Any mathemetician of worth with the knowledge we have today knows well enough that the "distance" between 1 and 20 is not any different than that between 1 and a million ....
that is not the point of mathematics anymore, particularly some of the greatest minds, even in the more recent past have killed themselves from insanity at trying to find "the absolute."
No longer is that the objective (again, to those minds of any value to us in our reality) ... rather, the objective is to understand how WE relate to what is around us and how it relates to us ...
Today's science explores reality not so much in the realm of the infinite/eternal (of which we ARE all existing w/in even now) and more in the realm of time as we know it (relatable to our senses) ... focusing more on what we are able to grasp rather than what we will NEVER fully grasp for the simple fact that the Eternal is and always will be beyond our reach (other than in the mind of philosopher who has more the ability to elaborate that "out of reach" realm by using allegorical language ... conceptual metaphors)