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Whatever are you doing using a computer or posting on the internet? Have you personally verified exactly how electricity works . . .

Surely you are not saying one must have detailed technical knowledge of an entity to enjoy its benefits, are you? I don't have to know the speed of light to enjoy its benefits either. But when someone tells me the speed of light is 186,000 mps I have at least two choices: 1.) accept the statement at face value, trusting this individual did the work to find out (which work did not come easily to those who finally determined the speed of light); or 2.) accept or reject the statement after doing the research and experiments myself. Apparently it is only the latter type of people who inhabit your planet.

Based on my current reading of physics and the nature of light, science hasn't answered all the questions, and this is a currently observable process. What kind of egotistical fool would expect every student of science to accept a hopeful rendition of history as factual when even the current universe remains largely unexplained?

Don't answer. I already know. I post to them on a regular basis.

.But when someone tells me the speed of light is 186,000 mps I have at least two choices: 1.) accept the statement at face value, trusting this individual did the work to find out (which work did not come easily to those who finally determined the speed of light); or 2.) accept or reject the statement after doing the research and experiments myself. Apparently it is only the latter type of people who inhabit your planet.

Fester, this isn't you, is it?

But when someone tells me the speed of light is 186,000 mps I have at least two choices: 1.) accept the statement at face value, trusting this individual did the work to find out (which work did not come easily to those who finally determined the speed of light); or 2.) accept or reject the statement after doing the research and experiments myself. Apparently it is only the latter type of people who inhabit your planet.

Odd. I thought that was your position. I might point out that both PatrickHenry and Radio Astronomer have posted easy ways to check the speed of light yourself.

Based on my current reading of physics and the nature of light, science hasn't answered all the questions, and this is a currently observable process.

Science has never claimed to have "answered all the questions." Your "and this is a currently observable process" has no obvious antecedent and is therefore unintelligible.

What kind of egotistical fool would expect every student of science to accept a hopeful rendition of history as factual when even the current universe remains largely unexplained?

What other, non-current "universe" are you expecting? -- a notion implied in "when even the current universe remains largely unexplained"?

But the question is a good one, up to this point: "What kind of egotistical fool would expect every student of science to accept a hopeful rendition of history as factual?" Actually, serious students of science are expected to do their own research, and the ones who succeed in overturning a previously accepted theory are the ones who get famous.

I’m curious, though. Do you apply that “what kind of egotistical fool,” question to your somewhat eccentric non-understanding of … well, just about anything you don’t understand? You’re the guy who won’t follow links and doesn’t like quoting an authority (except when you demand citations from others).

Is everyone who fails to accept your personal understanding of the Bible an “egotistical fool”?