[Meta] Why is it that Godel's Incompleteness Theorem is a common topic for Bad Math?

I am doing my final undergraduate project on Godel's Incompleteness Theorem and it made me realize that people love to use Godel's Incompleteness Theorem in situations to prove or disprove things that have nothing to do with Mathematics (like existence of God or for AI).

What I am wondering is why do all of you think that is the case? Why is Godel's Incompleteness Theorem such a common topic?

Posted Mar 26, 2017, 4:33 PM UTC

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