Yes it is, PH. It is difficult to accept that you believe that only "trained and educated" people can know anything about reality. Sheesh, you have just confirmed my suspicion that in certain scientific quarters, science has become the Holy Writ of a class of High Priests; and the "profane" had just better keep their mitts off. :^)
Still, it seems to me science does not hold the monopoly on knowledge of the real. Even uneducated people must know something reliable about the world every now or then. Otherwise, they'd probably all die young. Plus I could point out that this great nation of ours was not discovered, explored, and finally settled by a bunch of Harvard dons.
Must get back to work for now. I'll be back in a bit and finish my reply to your last as soon as I can. Meanwhile, thanks for writing!
Yes, if I had said that, it would be difficult to accept. But that's not what I said; nor was it what I indended to say. We were talking about the issue you raised: unanswered questions in science. I intended to say that scientists are the only ones who have the training and experience to provide scientific answers. That's considerably different, and far more limited, than saying that only scientists "know anything about reality." I'm certain there some scientists who know virtually nothing outside of their specialties. My favorite example is Einstein's peculiar devotion to socialism.
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