Jack the Bodiless

It's true that most of need to "trust the experts" somewhat.

But that's true of many scientific theories. Like the theory that the Earth is spherical rather than flat, for instance. I have personally never seen the "horizon effect" on ships at sea (I don't live on a coast, and there's been too much haze when I've looked for it). I've seen the shadow of the Earth on the Moon during a lunar eclipse, but the Earth could be a disk. I've travelled to distant countries, but I wasn't flying the plane: I can confirm only that day and night arrive at different times in different places.

Whereas I have seen plenty of evidence for evolution. The overall pattern of the evolutionary "tree of life" can be seen in the degrees of similarity between animals that I've encountered, and I have seen animals die as a result of birth defects (mutation and natural selection).

Therefore I conclude that if expert testimony is ignored, evolution remains more plausible than round-Earthism.