RE: How can Atheists trust science if a non-material realm of ideas and truth does not ex
August 9, 2010 at 8:41 am
(August 9, 2010 at 7:16 am)rybak303 Wrote: If the universe consists of a material realm only and there is no such thing as a non-material/spiritual realm of higher ideas and absolute truth. If our reason and science is only the interactions of matter upon matter and has no basis in a non-material realm of absolute truth then why should atheists believe in objective truth? And if atheists do not believe in objective truth than how can they trust reason and science? How can one trust reason and science as a path to objective truth if objective truth does not exist?Absolute truth exists; of course it does. Even in a material realm, truth exists, but as a way of interpreting the world around us (i.e. in our minds). At some particular point in time, something in the universe...is. That is to say, all the smallest particles must exist in some position, in some order, for anything to exist at all, so they must exist as absolute truths. What those truths are are unknown to us, and ultimately so are most absolute truths unless they stem from logic (the three laws of logic for example).
As for how we can trust reason and science; I find this question quite peculiar. Surely if objective truth existed and we knew it, we would have no reason to "trust" science, because we'd know science would be either true or false. Trust wouldn't come into it.
It is because we do not know objective truths that we have to put a level of "trust" onto science in the first place.
