While anybody _can_ make such arguments, as you describe the evidence is abundant, do they in practice? The question I was poorly raising was: how many people c

While anybody _can_ make such arguments, as you describe the evidence is abundant, do they in practice? The question I was poorly raising was: how many people can make a coherent argument making use of such evidence? I suspect many people have beliefs about the world not because they've reasoned it out, but because of the general cultural consensus. And thus if you critically questioned them they might struggle to come up up with the supporting evidence as you so easily did. What percent of populace is like that? Am I just be an elitist or is that a sizable cohort?