Hi, Dawn.
Dawn Bertot writes:
hooah212002 writes:
Also, any number of invasive species. If life was designed, why doesn't all life live harmoniously? Remember, this is the science forum, so "the fall" copout won't cut it.
Oh my goodness, this is palpably the most ignorant, stupid, moronic statement I ever witnessed in all of my years of debating.
No, it's not. It's pretty goofy, you're right: but, it's not the stupidest or the most moronic thing you've ever witnessed.
Besides, it was a
question, not a
statement.
If a
statement comes from ignorance, ridiculing it is understandable and perhaps excusable.
But, if a
question comes from ignorance, ridiculing it is
never understandable or excusable.
The first principle of science is to ask a question when you don't know the answer to it.
Science is moved forward by ignorant people asking questions in order to cure their ignorance.
Science is held back by arrogant morons who ridicule ignorant people who ask questions in order to cure their ignorance.
Now, I sympathize with---and perhaps even agree with---your opinion that the reason for Hooah's question was not actually something so innocuous as a cure for his ignorance, but such palpable ignorance as you feel Hooah is showing (whether deliberate or not) should be relatively straightforward to cure with simple logic and science. And, even if Hooah is resistant to the cure, surely some lurker or other onlooker will benefit from your attempting to cure his ignorance.
-Bluejay (a.k.a. Mantis, Thylacosmilus)
Darwin loves you.
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