Bad McGuffin (SPOILERS)

Dumbest McGuffin yet. At least the Ark and the Grail were based on religious miracles and Temple of Doom had magical stones and Hindu gods etc, so it made movie sense. Right now, they go anti-religious. They totally ditch the Jesus-piercing spear in the beginning, which is a message, and opt for, "mathematics" LOL. Ergo, Archimedes' Antikythera locates "naturally occurring rifts in space-time" because... mathematics. See? In Raiders and Last Crusade, Indy was a cynical man, a fact-based scientist, who had to put down his own convictions and search his own soul for some faith. That was the beauty of it. Now, in Dial of Destiny, what are Indy's beliefs? What does he have to confront? What is he facing? "Mathematics?" And then he outwernervonbrauns THE Werner von Braun, saying, "your 'calculations' are wrong because...continental drift?" Otherwise it would work as a charm, you see! It's mathematics!