Science

I do t think they invoke it directly, but it’s indirect. It’s the fact that when presented with a false argument that makes sense to a person, or a true argument that they can’t or refuse to understand, most people will “go with what they know” and reject that which confuses them. More over that we all have a “world view” and have our own basic concept of how the rules of reality work and where things places are in the world. Most people reject that which calls into question their own world view. If a person is ignorant, that world view is based in ignorance, and new information which would cause them to need to reasses assumptions or to then question what other things they may be wrong about threatens them- so they reject it out of hand not on a factual basis but because it would mean not only admitting wrong (which most humans don’t like), but that they have been living with a false concept of reality.

There are people who twist logic or science into a quasi religion, who aren’t actually arguing that a person shouldn’t blindly believe but arguing that their blind belief is better than someone else’s. However- at some point we must trust in experts. It’s just not possible for everyone to be a high level specialist in every field. Eventually someone will say something that you just won’t underatand. A simple example is most people’s mechanic, plumber, or “computer friend.” You likely went to them because you have other skills, but not the skill to diagnose, understand, and fix this particular problem. They know more, so you can’t really argue much. If you ask 10 specialists, and 9 agree while one says the others are full of crap, chances are the 9 are right. So we can at least make an effort to verify and not blindly follow whatever the first “expert” tells us- but at some point in life you run out of ways to look for evidence and have to just decide to believe or not.