re: Knowledge and certainty
tom wrote: "Geez, this is starting to get into the angels-on-a-pin zone. "
This is your other bullshit attempt at a way out, right behind Stalinist Strawmen, ANSWER and endless loops of red herrings. You don't have a case to make, so you start this disingenuous 'dis is alll jus' high-falutin nawn-sense. Any 'ol good-ol-boy wit' common sense a-knows what Iz talkin' bout' routine. Something like a briar rabbit move without a briar patch.
More WRT the rest of your post later, but I thought I'd at least point this out to you.
Davin L.