Common Sense Is Worthless in Science

*they are valuing their common sense view of the world over the empirical evidence and logical deduction?*

But aren't common sense and logic the same thing?

Merriam Webster:
Sound judgement based upon what is seen as knowledge held by people "in common", rather than esoteric study or research.

In practical terms, the Internet is filled with arguments that appeal to people's experiential knowledge. "How can slime turn into a man?" "How can something come from nothing?" and the like. Our experiences are only valid in a very narrow range of natural phenomena.

Scientific methodologies reject common experiential knowledge in favor of evidence.

Common sense made us say "the earth is flat". Common sense made us say "The earth is centre of the universe as everythings is pulled in its center". Common sense makes us say that a feather falls more slowly than a rock, while indeed they all fall at the same equally accelerated speed, and it's air that cheats us.

Common sense is dangerous, as it makes you think you have the answer while infact you don't. It's pretty dangerous.

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On the other hand try applying common sense to telling which mushrooms are poisonous and which are not. If you don't ahve experience with mushroom hunting and haven't grown up around mushroom hunters you better be sure to use science not common sense. Common sense only applies to common expeience.

Common sense is limited by our senses, experience, attention, brain capacity and innate biases built into our brain. If we use instruments to extend our senses, experiments to perceive new events, paper and computers to extend the capacity of our brains, psychology math and logic to help overcome our biases we extend our ability to understand and come to know a bigger and bigger universe. Apples and pears are reliably part of common experience so commons sense works.

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Common Sense Is Worthless in Science

To you reason is ignorant to me reason is Common Sense