It's one thing, Dave to cite authority on politics or ethics; it's quite different to cite authority on matters that have been studied by thousands of scientists for hundreds, on which consensus has been reached.
No one who has the necessary skills in math and physics doubts the the universe is at least 14 billion years old and the earth at least four billion years old. I'm including here the qualified scientists who support intelligent design.
The same goes for common descent. You can argue about the how and why, but you have no basis for arguing about whether.
I shoot at GGG because he dropped about fifty scatter-shot theories on the original debate thread without even noticing that they were not consistent with each other.
==I shoot at GGG because he dropped about fifty scatter-shot theories on the original debate thread without even noticing that they were not consistent with each other.
I must have missed that one. Which ones are not consistent with each other?