Do You Accept Evolution as a Fact?

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Safiir said:

fatslob-:O said:

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.

 

True but the basics are not hard to understand. Hell aligning a 100.000 year graph of CO2 emissions and the mean temperature on earth should give a pretty good example. The same goes for global temperature and the sea level they all follow the same pattern. As for how climate change influences hurricanes, droughts and precipitation around the world is more difficult as is how the data is verified. Using O2 isotopes and such but the basics are enough for regular people to make a connection and also see why this antropogenic climate change has a very unusual/fast rate. Same goes for evolution and mutations of the DNA. The how is rather difficult to explain but the what evolution is and the effects aren't. Problem is like most long therm problem is the scale of the time lines evolution takes 1.000s and the case of ape to human 10.000s of years.