Curiosity

I suppose some people live life without curiosity of any sort. In the purest, simplistic sense science is about curiosity. Human beings are curious. We are interested in shifting plates, the movement of the stars, climate, physiology, chemistry, and so on... Curiosity brings about questions who's conclusions have erected the monolith called science today. You strike a false dichotomy when you say if someone has no interest in one area, he should have no interest in any area. To try to stand on that point is an exercise in futility. Why can't it be that because I am interested in temperature variations over billions of years, I can also have an interest in geology, but for some reason am not allowed to be particularly not interested in ornithology? I am perplexed at the confrontational stances we find ourselves in. I think believing someone should think or feel a different way based on *our* world view is inherently problematic. I am perplexed that this conversation has evolved this way. Do you somehow think I am not interested in temperature variations over millions of years? Where did that come from? I am trying to allow for divergent perspectives. For example, the beating of a butterfly's wing in Japan significantly effects the flight of a 747 in Laguardia--if you think of quantum cause and effect. But it is also true that from a classical perspective this is immeasurable. Both can be true. What we should avoid is being unable to ask questions with impunity. It is this sort of fear that has been the enemy of science far more than 2 people with divergent opinion.