I suspect that if I tried to argue with Jacob Stein, the discussion would eventually turn into something like this.
Me: “X is so.”
Jacob: “No, ~X is so.”
Me: “But experts say X is so.”
Jacob: “But these other experts say ~X is so.”
Me: “Your experts are wrong and incompetent.”
Jacob: “No, your experts are wrong and incompetent.”
ad infinitum.
That’s when you have to pull up the evidence, and compare the life’s work of thousands of scientists examining the physical world to the life’s work of thousands of people perusing a few disreputable books for meaning.
I suspect that if I tried to argue with Jacob Stein, the discussion would eventually turn into something like this.
Me: “X is so.” Jacob: “No, ~X is so.” Me: “But experts say X is so.” Jacob: “But these other experts say ~X is so.” Me: “Your experts are wrong and incompetent.” Jacob: “No, your experts are wrong and incompetent.” ad infinitum.
We’d just contradict each other and get nowhere.
That’s when you have to pull up the evidence, and compare the life’s work of thousands of scientists examining the physical world to the life’s work of thousands of people perusing a few disreputable books for meaning.