This reminds me a bit of the part in 1984 where O'Brien is telling Winston the sun goes around the earth and the stars are just lights a few kilometers away. Bu

This reminds me a bit of the part in 1984 where O'Brien is telling Winston the sun goes around the earth and the stars are just lights a few kilometers away. But of course for some scientific and navigational purposes it's convenient to assume the earth orbits the sun and the stars are far away in space. Nobody would want anything they depend on to be designed without modern mathematics, but from a position of comfort, it's easy to make stuff up to suit your agenda when it has no real world consequences for you. Edit: I guess I can understand why an article like this gets flagged, and agree that almost inevitably it doesnt lead to a great discussion. My comment above doesn't really help. But this is important to discuss (and reject), it's anti-intellectualism our (computer scientists) back yard. Math is an easier target because it's something that anti-intellectual mobs have heard of, but eventually they will hear about algorithms and data structures, and come for CS and software