So long as people continue to confuse explanation with description-we'll have confusion. Math is description; science is description with comparison and the contrasting of said description(s). Then what is explanation? I have no clue but to say it is part of consciousness, and,in the case of homo sapiens, partial consciousness. To say that us(humans) with our four dimensional rules of calculation & perception can "know" the how of everything is no more proposterious than to believe the earth is flat. Put another way-scientists who too often reject a new theory put forth that challenges current theories or assumptions-it reminds me of religious zealots defending any challenge to their dogma