stevestory
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Moros
August 23, 2021 at 9:51 am
Virtually all the world’s scientists and university science departments accept evolution. That makes them all bigots? |
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Jerry
August 23, 2021 at 10:17 am
That makes them all bigots?
They have no basis for their beliefs. However, bigot is not the right word because they are all wrong. If they should make disparaging comments about those who hold different views, then bigot might be appropriate.
So what would the best word for this be? |
Experts, Jerry. That’s what they’re called.
I’ve never understood how morons like this think. For example, I have no interest in Geology. Never have. I’ve only ever had one class that involved it, BioGeoChem, which I took as a fun elective the last year of my undergrad. Fun stuff about c3 plants vs c4 plants, and the Pee Dee River Basin, and stromatolites, and how we know Thomas Gold was wrong about oil formation and so forth. So it’s safe to say I know very little about the subject. I know for a fact that I would fail an undergrad Geology final exam. On a graduate level geology Final I wouldn’t even fail, I probably wouldn’t even understand half the questions. So if I found out that 99% of Geologists claimed that Plate Tectonics is real, and the San Andreas fault moves about 2 inches a year, and they published literally thousands of papers a year about how big this plate is and how fast that plate was moving etc I’d think OK. Whatever. If I didn’t understand how this Plate Tectonics business worked I would assume that there’s some complicated parts that I didn’t understand. Cuz a million PhD geologists know a HELL of a lot more about that subject than I do. And I’m aware of my ignorance on the subject. It would never occur to me to say, “Nope! Not True! Those Geologists are all in cahoots the world over and they’re pulling a fast one on us!” But that’s what Jerry’s doing. He doesn’t have any awareness of his ignorance on the subject. And if you pointed out his ignorance, he wouldn’t care. “Sure I don’t have all those so-called facts. But I don’t need them. I’ve got common sense.” So he’s not just ignorant, he is immune from knowledge. I’ll never understand people like that.
Edited by stevestory on Aug. 23 2021,14:16
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