[AmishDude]

"Continental drift" is quantitative. It can be measured.

So can evolution in short lifespan creatures in the lab,

That was to what I was responding.

not all science is a matter of numbers.

Indeed, there are many who flail away in the Nerf™ sciences. But ya gotta have numbers of some kind, otherwise, you're just doing the humanities with a fancy white coat.

[Right Wing Professor]

Indeed, there are many who flail away in the Nerf™ sciences. But ya gotta have numbers of some kind, otherwise, you're just doing the humanities with a fancy white coat.

That's just nonsense. But I never met a mathematician who knew diddly about science in practice anyway, unless he/she was a double major.

[narby]

But ya gotta have numbers of some kind, otherwise, you're just doing the humanities with a fancy white coat.

Evolution has lots of numbers. Numbers of base pairs. Numbers of species. Numbers of years. Numbers of generations.

But like the science of weather observation (not prediction, just observation), no one number really tells it. You can measure the humidity, but that's just the humidity at one latitude/longitude/altitude. You can measure wind speed, but the same problem applies.

Evolution and weather can have numbers applied to their measurement, but they are both too chaotic to be described with numbers alone.