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8 Post author: lukeprog 23 October 2011 04:02AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 24 October 2011 12:55:08AM *  1 point [-]

I like the use of rhetoric in "Explain/Worship/Ignore?". It starts with a story, which is a nice and concrete way to draw the reader in. It also uses a computer control convention combined with underlining to repeatedly draw attention back to the main point. And then there's this little gem:

We can hit Explain for the Big Bang, and wait while science grinds through its process, and maybe someday it will return a perfectly good explanation. But then that will just bring up another dialog box. So, if we continue long enough, we must come to a special dialog box, a new option, an Explanation That Needs No Explanation, a place where the chain ends - and this, maybe, is the only explanation worth knowing.

There - I just hit Worship.