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I kept my suggestion short and to the point, “You might want to start by not calling them ignorant and closed minded.” Then followed it up with very basic communication skills. I’m not going to look up a link to a Dale Carnegie talk.  Then related directly to the thing you are talking about, the scientific method.

Science as we know it has only been around for 500 years, but you are lamenting how people are acting in the ways they have been for 50,000 years. We talk intellectually about how we are at the mercy of our biology, then we walk out into the world as if we are independent actors with total free will to use our rational minds to figure out anything. And if we see someone doing something because their mother told them it was right, we call them willfully ignorant.

I thought you were on to something, acknowledging the power of story telling and using the concept of intelligent design but not accepting the supernatural power of it. But you ask for “successful messaging”, then dismiss some of the things suggested, like Ursula Goodenough’s work. We had some discussion going, but you threw in “faith-shackled” and I thought that was worth pointing out as something that is counter productive. If you can’t take feedback on your use of language in a discussion that is about the use of language, that makes my part of the conversation kind of difficult.