[FoRK] Mythbusting the standard religious anti-science line

[Jeff Bone]

On Dec 3, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Sat N wrote:

>> Sadly even Ramanujan was afflicted with deep mystical tendencies.
>>
>
> Sadly? If it weren't for those mystical tendencies, Mathematics would
> have not had some of its best proofs.

Or perhaps it would have had even more, had he been able to focus on  
the math, free of the mysticism.

There's no reasonable way to make the case, one way or the other.

jb