[jwalsh07]

But that doesn't stop them from having strong opinions on everything from the big bang to biology, paleontology, geology, genetics, and the rest of the sciences.

And what do you think you guys should do to blue collar guys like me who have the audacity to engage the truly gifted?

Hanging or the stocks?

[Coyoteman]

And what do you think you guys should do to blue collar guys like me who have the audacity to engage the truly gifted?

Study and learn. There is no "gifted" -- there is only hard work.

There is a lot of information available out there. You can to seek it out and study it.

But remember, as Heinlein wrote:

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973

[freedumb2003]

And what do you think you guys should do to blue collar guys like me who have the audacity to engage the truly gifted?

Nice try. It is a question of "knowledge" not "ability."

You have to understand the fundametals of a subject before you can discuss it.

Can you discuss logic if you don't know boolean algebra? Can you discuss chemistry without knowing what acids and bases are?

There is a lot of material available to teach science and TToE (the real one, not the strawman portrayed in these therads). Avail yourself of it.