That's not practical though: there are just too many things to understand in the world, and you can't be an expert on all of them, or even most of them. Evolution is kind of a bad example because it's SO OBVIOUS but I am, for example, happy to take Quantum Mechanics on faith despite having only the vaguest understanding as to why it's true. If I was offered Newton's laws of motion and Einstein's laws and asked to choose, without paying attention to which was favoured by the scientific orthodoxy, I'd choose Newton's, they satisfy Occam's razor and match everything I have every experienced or am likely to experience.
I mean faith in experts shouldn't be absolute, they are sometimes wrong, and when experts disagree you have to decide for yourself. But in a case like evolution where all the experts agree I'm not going to argue without a very good reason.
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I mean faith in experts shouldn't be absolute, they are sometimes wrong, and when experts disagree you have to decide for yourself. But in a case like evolution where all the experts agree I'm not going to argue without a very good reason.