I think it's both. I can't reliably disprove each theory, so I can accept that I do not know the answer and it's even possible that both are true and I do not know the real shape of our realm.
I know the shape of my house. I have measured it.
People will fight the other side without doing a single experiment for themselves.
You have been so buffaloed and brow-beaten by the forces of chaos, you don't think you know anything at all, do you? There are two ways to know things. You use you intellect to figure them out for yourself, or you trust an authority. Since none of us can figure out everything for ourselves, we all trust authorities. It then becomes a question of which authority you choose to trust. Trusting the corporate media would be a mistake. Trusting the long history of Western science is a better choice, as long as you step around the nattering noodle-heads with their crackpot theories they pulled out of their asses. You also need to avoid political hacks with an agenda, because science and truth mean nothing to them.
I trust zero arguments based on authority alone. That will lead to dogmatic thinking. I am very comfortable with not knowing. I use my gut instinct a lot. It doesn't really hurt me. But just because a source is old doesn't mean it is correct. Using that reasoning you would have to say that earth is flat because that's what all the ancients believed.
I know things, and I know enough things to say I know very little. I don't even know what questions I will ask that will lead me to understand that I know even less then I thought I knew. And I'm totally OK with that.
You understand God's Third and final test for Job, that it is not possible for man to understand God's ways.
Very well articulated.
You're right, I try to explain this to people (that you are at the mercy of 'experts' and all you can do is choose the one you trust the most).
I've never seen Vitamin D, with my own eyes, work its effects, I've never studied DNA and how it cracks murder cases, I can only choose to believe what I am being told.
It makes you, it should, not so dogmatic as you might otherwise want to be.
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