Infidel mathematics

If we look at this Intelligent Creation argument, more precisely the quote near the end:

Darwin’s assumption that the terms species and variety are merely given for convenience’s sake is part of a larger materialist and reductionist program that undercuts the natural foundation of counting and distorts the natural origin of mathematics. To put it more bluntly, in assuming that “species” are not real, Darwinism and the larger reductionist program burn away the original ties that bound the meaning of mathematics to the world and instead leave it stranded on a solipsistic island of the human imagination.

–seems to be a sort of worked-over Berkeley argument, except now solipsism is a bad word. If there isn't a grand authority father-figure in heaven, then who vouches for where things begin and where they leave off? Why dear gosh, how can you even count on your fingers if you don't know your fingers from your hand, and your hand from your arm? Not to mention your nails. They could be in Newcastle for all you know!

There is not much more for me to say here because every time I read this passage, I just splutter at the absurdity of what is on the page [...]

There is a method to this madness. It's paranoid Manichaeism taken to absurd lengths.