• credo@lemmy.world
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    It needs to be “if you disagree without evidence.”

    They can leave that whole “if you’re not a scientist” bit in the rubbish bin.

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      If you disagree without evidence, you’re not wrong. You can propose an alternative theory that is consistent with existing evidence and it’s just as valid as anybody else’s. The mission is then to find evidence which disproves one theory or the other.

      Conjecture is fundamental.

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        If you disagree without evidence you may, even by pure chance be correct, however without evidence and methodology to discuss it, you may as well be wrong.

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        Without new evidence, disagreeing with established science is being wrong. Young earth creationists are wrong because they have no new evidence to contradict established science. Even thoigh the age of the earth was scientifically calculated multiple times and could be revised again with new evidence, flat earthers are wrong because conjecture about existing knowlege without evidence is just being wrong.

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          A young earth creationist’s hypothesis does not agree with existing evidence and so your example does not refute my argument.