Anyway, I went off after watching a benign documentary about steel and stumbling across someone in the comments started talking about creationism being the only rational response to the greatness of the world. Obviously, it was a troll but... too late....
here I go again...
E.O. Wilson, an experimental biologist and multiple Pulitzer winner describes his 50+ years studying ants and what they teach us about our world. His ingenious tests of evolutionary change grew naturally from a childhood spent asking, "Why?" That one word provides the fuel for the most powerful way we humans have found to begin understanding what we see and hear and touch and taste and smell. Certainly science has limits and definitely other ways of knowing must inform our scientific explorations. Yet we benefit every day that we allow and support those who ask questions and question answers. Greater benefits yet come when we allow frank discussion and respect transparent motives. I look forward to the lessons we will learn each day that we can freely experiment and share the results while still fulminating a new crop of questions that spring from every single answer. I am sure you agree. You demonstrate your courage to show the world what the fruits of your learning has brought you. I look forward to what thoughts and knowledge an expanded library of knowing will bring you..
Someday I will collect troll responses and sift through the responses. I bet the trolls have drawn some amazing (good and bad) responses.
For those needing more... https://youtu.be/QUjgSQn6eqY is the video link that my fat fingers stumbled on... yes, I was double trolled. Everybody get your giggles out now. I think I should get a pass on this one, though. Is it actually possible to refrain from responding to any pile followed by the line "This is scientific fact which is verifiable." All right, it is the exact same line every troll learns on the first day of Troll school and that's verifiable. But if you have made it through the past two weeks without going off on some troll... or the random 5-year-old (not mine, of course) then my hearty congrats to you. Me? I'm going to up my dose of Nye and any other old bugger who can still say they've seen worse.
