"But I guess what most people think of as "science" isn't as much about the scientific method or discovery of knowledge as it is about not questioning or even investigating what science book writers say and calling those who do blasphemers."

"I'll say Schilling was questioning the narrative based on the theory and not the theory itself"

So you don't know what he actually said, but you feel comfortable holding forth at length about where he was coming from, and what point he was trying to make.

"Conjecture is still conjecture, my man."

Again, these aren't "best guesses," they're based on observable data. The transitions between different species aren't "guesses," they're based on fossil records and DNA evidence.

"Stuff like what you just said is why fundamentalists coin lines like "it takes more faith to believe in evolution than the Bible.""

The theory of evolution is not our "best guess," it's a scientific theory. The fact that you refer to it as the former demonstrates you should have paid closer attention in biology.

Here's the point you're (deliberately?) missing: you don't need to be an "expert" to understand how the theory of evolution works, and to understand the basic evidence which supports it. This is advanced grade-school level stuff, and basic high school level biology.

Don't bother. The theory of evolution is so arcane and complicated that no one could hope to understand it without a specialized education inaccessible to normal hard-working Americans. I mean, who has the ability to take 9th grade biology except the intelligentsia?

Very few. But I did take high school biology, and I've read at least one book about science in my life. You know, "specialized education" like that.

popular scientific narrative which has an academic basis inaccessible to common people without specialized education

Boo to you.

You'd have thought so, wouldn't you?

That is just nonsense. Schilling was not being mocked for being a Christian, he was being mocked for being fundamentally, and proudly ignorant about science and using that ignorance as a cudgel to pretend everyone else was wrong. That he chooses to justify this ignorance with his version of Christianity doesn't make…

It was a joke, nerdlinger.

I hope you touch a girl's boob some day.

I thought that joke smelled bad on the outside.

See, that's the thing about both Woods and Jordan: they have more money than they could ever spend in 10 lifetimes, they reached the absolute pinnacle of their professions and are beloved by hundreds of millions of people around the world, but they're also both pretty clearly miserable pricks whose insane…

Who will have the most miserable post-retirement life, Jordan or Woods?

I'm willing to bet that the Child Magary is not being hounded by strangers yelling at her.