To those who aren't Peg: I think honest ignorance should be treated respectfully, but I recognize how difficult this is when combined with a sort of chutzpah, so...
To those who are Peg: How respectfully and seriously do you think I'd be treated if I entered a Christian discussion board claiming that Groundhog Day celebrates the day Jesus rose from the dead, cast aside the stone at the cave's entrance, walked out into the sunshine and saw his shadow? When I persisted in this, wouldn't my obvious lack of any sincere attempt to inform myself mean I deserved the derision and disrespect I received? Wouldn't this lack of any effort on my part be itself a form of disrespect in the way it wasted the time of sincere Christians who honestly want to help me understand Christianity?
To the others here you seem to be exhibiting a profound lack of any inclination to inform yourself about science. You are speculating about science in ways as ridiculous as the Resurrection being the origin of Groundhog Day. Anyone can speculate about anything, but not all speculations are meaningful. I mean, maybe Lot's wife wasn't really his wife, maybe she was really Moses's wife, and maybe Soddom and Gomorrah were really Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and maybe God is really Santa Claus. How profound must someone's ignorance of Christianity be to believe such nonsense? Could such profound ignorance even be possible?
This is what some people here are beginning to wonder about you and your ignorance of science, whether you're for real or are just pulling our collective leg. I don't have any specific advice I can give you, but please try to find ways that make it easier for people to take you seriously. One way you might begin is by treating scientific ideas with respect instead of with what appears to be casual dismissal, just as we try to insist here that people treat religious ideas with respect.
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