What science does not do (Agnosticism)

by Balance_Maintained @, U.S.A., Monday, December 20, 2010, 13:21 (4877 days ago) @ xeno6696

I fail to see how my practice of solving a combinatorial equation has any bearing at all on ethics or morality... so I can't buy the idea that 'all endeavors try to answer the same question.' 
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> The same for functional analysis or number theory.-Mathematics is a tool that is applied to many fields, not just pure mathematics. It is used in everything from physics to religion to ethics..(if you don't believe that just ask the last graduate who applied for a job and was turned down to meet a quota derived by superficial reduction of populace to ethnic percentage rates which were then in turn applied to 'ethical' hiring standards. I certainly did not mean the statement to be linear. Unless your are Douglas Adams, the meaning of life is not 42.


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