I see the posters of this message board as very intellectual, Much more talent here then I am capable of keeping up with, but I am going to give it my best shot.
It is somewhat intimidating I must say.
Most of us here can't keep up with some of the specialists or those who are particularly fast thinking. So don't worry about it too much. Most of the experts are astonishly patient if you ask questions.
The right approach is always to understand that you don't know everything.
All of us at one time or another get a little dogmatic. It seems, to my eyes anyway, that the worst of those are the creationists who drop in here thinking that they can somehow come up with some overturn of the whole of science when 1,000s have been thinking through the problems for many decades. Ya gotta wonder.
Common sense isn't
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