• marcos@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    But Darwin, as far as I recall, didn’t use math at all.

    You should take a look at modern evolution theories.

    A whole host of sciences don’t approach their problems through mathematically described laws or even statistical models.

    “Models” are something mathematical by definition. A lot of sciences have very simple models that people can handle without formalism. They are still mathematical, even if you don’t need to calculate things.

    • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      I’m not denying that modern evolutionary theories use math and I think it’s important, but that in many sciences, math isn’t the focus like it is in physics. A lot of good science can be done without math. Darwin did good science without math.

      To be very clear, science doesn’t need math. We use math as a tool to accurately describe phememona and relationships with math.

      I don’t what you are saying about models being mathematical by definition eben if people can handle it. I don’t see how the model of the cell is mathematical. Models require relationships and not mathematics to describe those relationships.