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To: crail
Most mathematics departments have a Math Bio group.

Trendy pseudo-scientific ad hoc garbage. They're desperately trying to mathematically model biological phenomena, most often with little success.

Further, even if biologists can't do math, does it mean they can't do biology?

It means biology is a soft science that should not be taken seriously. If you don't understand mathematics than whatever you understand is only at the level of theology anyway.

138 posted on 05/10/2005 7:54:58 AM PDT by AmishDude (Join the AmishDude fan club: "Very well put, AD. As usual." -- Howlin; "ROFL!" -- Dan from Michigan)
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To: AmishDude
It means biology is a soft science that should not be taken seriously.

Oh. So much for ID then. I've yet to see a single equation in ID literature.
141 posted on 05/10/2005 7:56:53 AM PDT by crail (Better lives have been lost on the gallows than have ever been enshrined in the halls of palaces.)
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To: AmishDude
If you don't understand mathematics than whatever you understand is only at the level of theology anyway.

It's nice to know that I write software that control spacecraft with ... theology.

Or is that witchcraft?

I've always been math challenged. I can get completly lost trying to understand graphic transformations that only have 10 variables or so. But I can keep the structure and varable list in my head of 20k lines of code.

152 posted on 05/10/2005 8:07:41 AM PDT by narby
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To: AmishDude
Trendy pseudo-scientific ad hoc garbage. They're desperately trying to mathematically model biological phenomena, most often with little success.

Eh? On what planet? Biological mathematics is very well established, heavy into discrete disciplines, linear algebra and calculus, and has an enviable, well-established predictive track record. It hasn't been reasonable to call it a "soft science" for at least 40 years. Are you under the impression that pure math hasn't got it's byways and alleys where we deal with failures, natural limits of analysis, and groping around in the dark, unaided by provably formal demonstrations?

195 posted on 05/10/2005 9:11:12 AM PDT by donh
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To: AmishDude
Trendy pseudo-scientific ad hoc garbage. They're desperately trying to mathematically model biological phenomena, most often with little success.

Gosh another area where you demonstrate abject ignorance. Somehow that does not surprise me.

It means biology is a soft science that should not be taken seriously. If you don't understand mathematics than whatever you understand is only at the level of theology anyway.

Thanks for demonstrating that you have shit for brains as well as a maladjusted personality.

204 posted on 05/10/2005 9:15:53 AM PDT by balrog666 (A myth by any other name is still inane.)
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