[BroJoeK]

papertyger: "You have steadfastly refused to present your own, or any, testable argument, and you blanche at my assessment of your posturing?"

No, in over a dozen posts I've presented many such arguments, which you have steadfastly ignored, preferring to stand back & throw insults at me.

So what, exactly, is your problem?

[papertyger]

MY problem is that YOU do not know the difference between an “argument,” and an “assertion.”

Making one assertion predicated on another assertion is NOT an “argument.” Therefore, you have yet to make ANY argument WHAT-SO-EVER.

You need to take a break from reading books on science you aren’t qualified to evaluate, and try reading some on the rules of critical thinking.

There’s a really good reason people still know the names of men like Socrates and Plato, you know. You should find out why that is before trying to “enlighten” us poor, benighted, “deplorables.”