[turtledragonfly]

> It is a metaphysical question, not a scientific question.

Well here I soundly agree with you. I believe that's what I was trying to communicate at the very start, when I said "those 'why' questions are exactly what math and science do not answer."

I suppose our difference relates to how we conceive of other kinds of "why" questions.

> Mathematics is constantly proving things true.

Also agreed with you there. That's one key difference between math and science, in my mind. For that reason, I suppose I'd put theoretical physics more in the "math" realm than the "science" realm, at least w/respect to the theorem you mention, and similar.

Small aside: thank you for the tenacious-but-respectful discussion — I always worry when a thread goes 3+ replies deep that it'll just become an angsty flamewar, so it's nice to have a counterexample in my training set (: