# is evolution a fact? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 19, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-evolution-a-fact/593375 "2011-08-19T21:30:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 92
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-evolution-a-fact/593375/92 "2011-08-23T13:33:24Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Who says math is about describing reality? Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. It’s interesting either way, and being interesting is what math is about. Always seemed to me that math was the language of the universe. When prying into the fundamental reality of things the bottom line for doing so is math. I have been told by physicists (one of my brothers is a physicist) that at the end of the day words fail them when explaining certain concepts and if I _really_ want to understand what is happening I need to understand the math. Hell, I think that gold record we sent on Voyager to “talk” to aliens if they found it used math to communicate. Obviously an alien will not know English but presumably math is universal and they’d understand that. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-evolution-a-fact/593375)._