Questioning Expertise (moved comments)

[RonSewell (RonS)]

@PDPrice

One way to verify in a scientific context is to see if there’s a group of experts who dissent from the view you’re being told. Then, listen to them in their own words (not the caricature presented of them by their opponents).

By definition, no apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the scriptural record.

Answers in Genesis Statement of Faith

@PDPrice

This is a theological question with a theological answer.

It is pretty clear that creationists, rather than mainstream science, are the ones theologically driven.

@PDPrice

It doesn’t work to try to make your decisions about life’s most important questions (how did we get here, where do we go when we die, etc.) based upon somebody’s supposed expertise. You’re going to have to do thinking of your own.

I agree that you cannot outsource your thinking, but consideration of other’s expertise is much different from just expertise shopping in order to track down some outliers who might indulge confirmation bias.

When scientists (including the evangelical scientists and geologists I happen to know) are at the lab bench, field, whiteboard, or analyzing data on the monitor, they are not wondering how to interpret the results so they can sin with impunity. They are curious to follow the evidence to where it leads rather that attempt to excuse it away, and the consensus is overwhelming.