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cojoco · 4651 days ago · link · · parent · post: A Priori Reasoning, Mathematics, and those Goddamn Reddit Atheists
There's another side to this statement, which is that most things that we know in the world can't actually be proven with mathematics.
Even evolution, a poster child for the science vs. religion debate, has very little mathematics in it. Evolution boils down to a story which has a lot of confirming anecdotes. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with science done in this way, just that mathematics is not a good basis for all knowledge.