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Is truth relative?
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RE: Is truth relative?
January 24, 2015 at 9:00 pm
(January 24, 2015 at 8:56 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Maybe "framework" is not the best word-- perhaps "context"?

*wipes brow* For a second I thought you were going to say "intellect."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

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Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 24, 2015 at 7:34 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by Dystopia - January 24, 2015 at 7:45 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 24, 2015 at 8:56 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by Tonus - January 24, 2015 at 9:00 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 24, 2015 at 9:12 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by IATIA - January 24, 2015 at 11:10 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 25, 2015 at 12:28 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by IATIA - January 25, 2015 at 12:35 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 25, 2015 at 3:10 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by Neo-Scholastic - January 25, 2015 at 1:16 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 25, 2015 at 8:17 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by Alex K - January 25, 2015 at 10:39 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 24, 2015 at 8:02 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by Minimalist - January 24, 2015 at 8:02 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by Darkstar - January 24, 2015 at 8:28 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by ManMachine - January 24, 2015 at 8:35 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by The Grand Nudger - January 24, 2015 at 11:15 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by Davka - January 24, 2015 at 11:42 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by Mudhammam - January 25, 2015 at 12:20 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by robvalue - January 25, 2015 at 3:34 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 25, 2015 at 8:19 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by downbeatplumb - January 25, 2015 at 1:17 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by Dystopia - January 25, 2015 at 10:52 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by The Grand Nudger - January 25, 2015 at 9:22 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by Alex K - January 25, 2015 at 11:26 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 25, 2015 at 12:18 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by Alex K - January 25, 2015 at 10:54 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 25, 2015 at 11:10 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by The Grand Nudger - January 26, 2015 at 12:35 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 26, 2015 at 5:11 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by Alex K - January 26, 2015 at 5:42 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by The Grand Nudger - January 26, 2015 at 7:54 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by Jackie - January 26, 2015 at 8:39 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 26, 2015 at 9:47 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by Jackie - January 26, 2015 at 9:54 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by bennyboy - January 26, 2015 at 11:29 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by Jackie - January 26, 2015 at 12:26 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by tantric - January 26, 2015 at 10:27 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by Jackie - January 26, 2015 at 10:39 am
RE: Is truth relative? - by Davka - January 26, 2015 at 12:55 pm
RE: Is truth relative? - by The Grand Nudger - January 26, 2015 at 10:30 am

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