Can Ken Ham be far behind?

That is a funny cartoon. I used to like Dilbert back in the mid-nineties.

However -

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_[…]are_bul.html

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_[…]still-b.html

Notedscholar -

I am afraid that in your subtlety, you are creating a “Poe” dilemma. Your web site is extremely well-written and shows strong signs of a sense of humor. I tend to hypothesize that a sense of humor rules out creationism. It happens that some of your arguments are a bit difficult to differentiate from actual creationist arguments. I presume this is happening due to a deliberate effort to “take creationist arguments to their logical extensions” or some such thing.

Still, I have some comments.

This reminds me - reminds all of us - of the fundamental epistemological paradox of ID. They are willing to accept scientific authority on a matter as complex as the Higgs Bosom (HB),

Putting aside the fact that ID/creationists not infrequently deny the possibility of the Higgs Boson, I would hope that no rational people would ever accept the authority of physicists.

What I personally do, as an extremely valuable heuristic, is accept the expertise of physicists.

Hypothetically, I can verify everything physicists say about the Higgs Boson, at almost any level of depth I choose. All major developments related to the Higgs Boson are publicly reported shortly after their discovery. All of the background material required to understand all current thought on the Higgs Boson is also publicly available. True, one might have to sacrifice money and time to gain all the necessary information. Some minimum level of academic ability, whatever that consists of, may be necessary to comprehend the material. The most convenient method of acquiring the background material - getting physics degrees - is restrictive; not everyone can be accepted or sacrifice the time. Lab experience may depend on access to such degree programs, unless one is willing to spend a very large amount of money.

However, in principle, if I wanted to intelligently dispute physicists with regard to the Higgs Boson, it is fair to say that, with only my own abilities and time as a limitation, and no road blocks of secrecy or arbitrary authority erected by physicists, I could use publicly available resources to learn almost everything there is to learn about it.

As it happens, physicists as a group have demonstrated themselves to be highly credible (in my subjective perception), not least of all because they are highly critical of one another, and in general, the heuristic of accepting their consensus opinion on matters pertaining to physics, rather than making myself a physicist in order to check on them, is reasonable. However, this does not ascribe arbitrary authority to them.