Before you continue whining like a spoiled brat, you need to be reminded that its YOU that has to answer questions, not demand answers. The burden of proof weighs completely on your shoulders, not mine. You are the one challenging that which is accepted to be true by the unanimous consensus.
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"41. The authority of the learned in matters relating to
their specialties
demands our prudent assent.
The authority of the savant
in his peculiar domain, should be respected by the unlearned,
since he who by the culture of his mind is fitted to apprehend a truth may impose it on him who could not of himself attain to its knowledge. But as
the learned themselves are competent to examine the particular truths in question,
they should judge the authority of other scientists by their own reason. Hence we may formulate the following three rules :
1. The authority of scientists should be accepted so long as there is no
reasonable ground to believe it false or to suspect it; it should be rejected, if it is
known to be false ;
2. Every scientist is a competent judge
only in the science of which he is master;
3. One
scientist may accept the affirmations of another,
when he cannot himself ascertain their truth or demonstrate their falsity;* yet
he may reject them if the opposite arguments are of
equal weight."
* For a clear exposition of the harmony between the positive results of science and the truths of faith, consult Apologia de la Foi Chretienne."
f/ "ELEMENTARY COURSE OF CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY BASED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF The Best Scholastic Authors" by L. de Poissy, pp. 136-137 (P. O'Shea 1893)
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