Danes feel Obama is greater than Jesus

[--Pete]

Hi,

I didn't mean in general, but specific questions. You know... Like when someone says the Human Eye is evidence... Show them the intermediate structures.

Is it really too damn much to ask that they look for the evidence themselves? It's there, in the libraries, on television shows, on the internet. It's not lack of evidence, it's lack of intelligence, it's willful ignorance, it's putting faith ahead of facts.

I've played that game, it leads nowhere. "What good is half an eye?" So you explain the sequence from photosensitive patches to the octopus's eye. So they start questioning each and every stage and the transition to the next. And, when you are honest enough to admit that we don't have all the details yet, they claim it as a victory.

I've run into the same thing in my field. I've had ignorant fools who cannot balance their check books question quantum mechanics or special relativity because, since they cannot understand it, it must be wrong. Explain it to them? The full details can only be expressed mathematically -- we don't have the senses or language because these are fields outside of our direct experience. Every verbal explanation I've ever given or ever heard is incomplete, incorrect, or both.

The current approach is akin to a punch in the nose for ordering water in your whiskey. Blasphemy, but no need to get nasty about it.

Nasty? Putting water in good whiskey should be a capital offense -- and drinking bad whiskey is just self flagellation.

--Pete