RE: How can Atheists trust science if a non-material realm of ideas and truth does not ex
August 9, 2010 at 1:35 pm
(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?
I absolutely promote the idea that truth is and can be objective. I don't understand how you arrived to the conclusion that atheists don't believe in objective truth. Still, everything we understand we never understand completely - there is always a degree of error in our understanding and we can never completely understand anything.
As such, we can never claim absolute anything, but that's different from objective truth.
