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To: phantomworker
I am trying to figure you out, dude. What is your basic philosophy? It seems like you are all over the road. You seem very articulate, yet anti-science? Existentialist? ??? What is your position on evolution? Since this is an evo thread?

I thought I made it pretty clear. I do not believe in pushing any idea or theory as Truth, until it can be proven true. Nor do I believe in discarding any idea or theory until it can be disproven.

Do I believe evolution is true? No.

Do I believe strict creationism is true? No.

Do I believe that the answer may be something involving both? No.

Do I believe it MIGHT be one of the above. Yes... but maybe not.

I KNOW only that I KNOW nothing, and barely that. - Socrates (See also Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle)

I personally find that those who KNOW would be rather amusing... if they did not cause so much misery in the world. If there is a god.. may he save us from the "True believers".

96 posted on 03/22/2006 9:32:35 PM PST by AnnoyedOne
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To: AnnoyedOne

When a person speaks of Truth, it implies moralism. There are no absolute truths. Hypotheses abound. They are proven and disproven regularly. So you are talking relativism (very interesting concept, thank you!)

http://www.carm.org/relativism/relativism_refute.htm

Some excepts:

Refuting relativism

Relativism is the philosophical position that all points of view are equally valid and that all truth is relative to the individual. But, if we look further, we see that this proposition is not logical. In fact, it is self refuting.

All truth is relative

If there are no absolute truths, then you cannot believe anything absolutely at all, including that there are no absolute truths. Therefore, nothing could be really true for you - including relativism.

What is true for you is not true for me

That is your reality, not mine Is my reality really real?

We all perceive what we want

If our perceptions are contradictory, can either perception be trusted?

If my reality is that your reality is false, then both cannot be true. If both are not true, then one of us (or both) is in error.


105 posted on 03/22/2006 9:58:57 PM PST by phantomworker (Democracy is a horribly inefficient form of government which tends to drift in the right direction.)
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