Still sounds like &quot;Appeal to authority&quot; to me.  To speak to your analogy, I am involved in the field of computers, and I&#x27;ve seen first hand &quot;experts&quot; in this field build big complicated systems, that maybe had some merit at some point in time, but as the context changed with new developments and technologies, a young upstart built something much more simple that made the expert&#x27;s system look like a mess.  This is relevant because the context of what we understand is very different from Newton&#x27;s time.  School children have a more accurate depiction of the laws that govern our reality than the tops minds at the time, who believed in such things as phlogiston and the earth-centric universe.