Dan Bloomquist wrote:

Why am I not surprised to see you coming to bat for Little Tommy? Kooks of a feather and all that I guess.

Michael Davis wrote:

Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote:

"Tim K." wrote:

 >>> Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote:

of which we as
a species and a civilization know almost nothing about, in global scale,
certainly on cosmic scale.

There's that ego again - if *you* don't understand it, "we as  a species and
a civilization know almost nothing".

My claim wasn't based upon my understanding of any particular thing, rather that
our totality of understanding of the cosmos and the planet Earth is extremely
limited,

Really?

Hello Michael,
'Extremely' may not be quantified, how to you quantify it? Do we 'know'?

I don't have to quantify anything. I'm not the one claiming humans are ignorant. I'd like to see Little Tommy quantify the "totality of understanding" that he claims we are nowhere near achieving. How does he know we aren't far closer to achieving that "totality" than we are to the total ignorance of our origins? What benchmark is he using for measurement? Is he comparing us to his imaginary alien saviors? I wouldn't be surprised.

a claim that is trivially supported by the evidence

What evidence would that be...

I can't speak for Thomas,

Then don't.

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