[Right Wing Professor]

Perhaps according to the sources whom you choose to trust

I trust my own understanding of physics.

Your argument seems to go: I'm too stupid or lazy to understand physics, so any judgement I make must trust someone else, so I'll trust this old book instead.

Argumentum ad stupidum; well, at least you've concocted a new fallacy.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Projection of ignorance seems rampant among creationists.

[Fester Chugabrew]

I trust my own understanding of physics.

At least you trust in something, worthless as it may prove to be. But I seriously doubt you arrived at your own understanding of physics solely by virtue of your own observation and testing. Or were you born in a vacuum?