Do You Accept Evolution as a Fact?

[Safiir]

fatslob-:O said:

Safiir said:

Well, yeah but in order to properly analyse and understand the empirical evidence you do need several qualified (as in know enough about the subject) people who generally agree on the results. You can't have a single person be the ultimate authority on the matter because we're still just human. There's plenty of subjectivity on our part. This is why it's important to have a scientific consensus. I don't believe it makes it like a tiranny of the majority that suppresses different thoughts and ideas, although that's not to say it hasn't happened. Again - we are human. Eventually, though if it is proven even a drastically different theory will be accepted.

Science should be accessible to everyone but alas the tools needed are too complex ... (I do not like science being dominated by academics or scholars when bias is seeping through from those groups.) 

You don't want a consensus as it produces bias and your treading on a very dangerous territory of groupthink ... 

I want you to know that science is NEVER determined by consensus since it misses the point that verification of theories are based upon epirical evidence rather than what your peers think ... 

Tyranny of the majority is a very real thing going on in the science community when a majority of them are academically dishonest if social darwanism is brought up and similarily the social sciences are suffering because a huge demographic of those specializing in that field are liberally leaning ... 

Again - you need years of learning and experience on a subject. Hence why it is dominated by academics or scholars. I mean an average person can't really understand the data collected on global warming for example (since it's currently such a hot topic). It should be available for him, definitely. But he/she simply lacks the knowledge to interpret it.