[MD] Intellectual and Social

[Arlo Bensinger]

[John]
You can call it oops, you can call it aha, but the fact is, you don't 
understand it.

[Arlo]
What a strange rhetoric device? Telling people who *you* do not 
understand, that they themselves don't understand what it is they are 
saying. Seems like a convenient way to blame others for your own 
ignorance. But whatever...

[John]
That's ok, if you can accept that the universe is more mysterious 
than your scientific explanations can contain...

[Arlo]
Well that's just more evidence or your own ignorance.

[John]
... you're reduced to ridiculously unverifiable postulations like 
sunlight + time = life.

[Arlo]
Yikes. Now you're borrowing a page from Platt's playbook?? Ai yi 
yi... C'mon, John, you're better than that...

Or maybe you're idea of "mysterious" is Platt's "Poof!". Maybe 
Houdini really did have magical powers...