It's even more confusing when you have the scientifically illiterate reading very short press releases about something that possibly took a decade of work and likely resulted in a 20 page detailed article in a scientific journal.
It's impossible to summarize these things and the work done by the scientists in these brief press releases, but there's a lot of people who have never read an actual scientific paper in their lives and get the impression that this is all there is.
Sadly the hoi polloi have not been blessed with the superior intellect of the technocrats.
You want to discuss science with folks who read papers, go to a science forum.
Here you get opinions from the downtrodden and stricken.
Such is life!
It's impossible to summarize these things and the work done by the scientists in these brief press releases, but there's a lot of people who have never read an actual scientific paper in their lives and get the impression that this is all there is.
But yet you feel comfortable summarizing a persons entire life, and their accumulated knowledge therein, by one or two posts on this thread.
I've read plenty of scientific papers, and if in this case, all you can squeeze out of those years or decades of intensive research are mere speculations, then there can't be much substance to the work itself.
Could be that is exactly what these so called illiterates are opining about.
But where are my manners. I've injected myself in a conversation that is clearly outside of my class. My apologies, and please do carry on...
My word, have the unwashed masses dared to voice their uneducated opinions? Dear me, these peasants have no business stepping out of their place. They really should leave the deep thinking to their betters. Pass the grey poupon, would you?
OK, so perhaps you would like to provide us with some credentials to demonstrate why it is you feel qualified to condemn everyone who disagrees with you as *scientifically illiterate*? What field is your scientific degree in? What scientific career field are you currently employed in? What qualifies you to pass this kind of judgment on people who you know nothing about except their views on the ToE and creation? How does this entitle you to pass judgment on them as people and as a whole? If they disagreed with you on a different scientific issue, would you also condemn them the same way?