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Originally Posted by DossarLX ODI

I would definitely see that as an insult rather than an explanation because it doesn't tell that person anything. Saying "get educated" literally does not add any useful information whatsoever. If you asked me a question and I said "get educated", not only am I not giving you information, I'm insulting you.

I don't necessarily mean to use that as an actual response.

What I mean is that it's really hard to debate someone when their level of understanding is so far outside where it needs to be. If you don't understand the basics of, say, math, physics, biology, chemistry, logic, statistics, etc -- that's a shitload of intuition that you simply won't have yet.

So, in some cases, it's just impossible to get someone up to speed on all that intuition, because that's what years of education is for. It's much harder to make someone understand why your argument is convincing if they don't even understand the argument. You'll notice that a lot of creationists fail to understand how evolution operates, hence all the common quotes you hear which are marks of ignorance ("If we came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?" "Doesn't the second law of thermodynamics disprove evolution?" "Something as complex as an eye can't evolve from nothing because if you remove any one part, the whole thing stops working", etc).