Oh, come on!

I'm watching "The Code" - a series running on BBC2 at present, and I have to say it strikes me as the intellectual equivalent of somebody claiming to have seen the Virgin Mary's face on a piece of toast.  To suggest - as it seems to me the programme is doing - that because the natural world can be explained in mathematical terms, it must follow that the natural world is subject to mathematical laws goes too far.  It's a bit like the chicken and egg business isn't it - which came first?  Did mathematics produce the natural world, or did the study of the natural world produce mathematics?  And when you put it that way, the answer is pretty obvious, isn't it?  Still, it's a fascinating programme.