[barrysteve]

You constantly talk in the terms of faithful ideas and yet reject they exist.

There is a reason you 'think this curious idea might be true' and the chain of ideas that got you to this point goes back a long way. And your thinking is usually influenced by unspoken ideas you take as prima facie true and acceptable, even though you never admit it.

These ideas come from faith and if you understand their starting point, you can understand their likely ending point and become a better scientist for it.

You don't see the connection because I haven't summarized centuries of ideas in three sentences of logical chains so you don't have to think about the history of ideas, and can just accept the answer prima facie like you do every other idea science runs on.

You don't know, what you don't know.

This really feels like pearls before swine. Have a nice day.

[eis]

  >  You constantly talk in the terms of faithful ideas and yet reject they exist.

I'm perplexed why you say that I reject faithful ideas exist. I don't.

  > You don't know, what you don't know.

Agreed.

  > This really feels like pearls before swine. Have a nice day. 

Wow what a rude and ignorant way to have a discussion. But ok, let's end it here.

[dang]

You posted almost 60 (!) comments in this thread, including tons of religious flamewar comments, and breaking the site guidelines as you did here.

This is seriously not cool and we ban accounts that post like this, so please don't post like this again.

I've banned the other user that you got into the longest flamewar with, but this was definitely a multiperson tango.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[eis]

I agree the religious flamewar was bad. Appologies for that.

Some of the other comments in this thread that contribute to the number you quoted were not contributing to a flamewar though so I don't think the number of comments is bad per se. It's just a topic I have interest in and commenting a lot can be also a sign of a lively discussion and not a flamewar - though a lot of it was! I've seen a preference on HN for 'post and drop' style which imho contributes to a more shallow discussion. Sometimes it might be hard to find the balance I guess. If one is passionate about a topic one can quickly get too engaged in it. Anyways, wont happen again. Cheers!