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Old 07-24-2007   #63 (permalink)
BrianFantana
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Default Re: Atheist or Agnostic?

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Originally Posted by papasmurf View Post
They are absolute because they can be proven. I don't believe anything without peer reviewed proof. (Which is why I reject a hell of a lot of social "science".)
The belief that anything is "absolute" is quite amusing to me. You can prove it? So what? In two years, there will be another set of facts and/or data from such a peer-reviewed source that discredits the previous truth you held as "absolute". Take for example the talk above about the theory of Heliocentricity and Galileo's problems as a result of it. Granted, science has evolved in leaps and bounds since then, but the same analysis should apply, as in another 400 years what we call "science" will be equated with banging two rocks together. Galileo was correct in theory, but wrong in science. However, neither his nor the prior notion of Geocentricity were correct in full, even though they were somewhat indoctrinated at the time they were held as "absolutes".

Relativity, and therefore subjectivity, become the only "absolutes", which I realize is an inherent contradiction, and this should itself indicate that nothing is in fact "absolute". Confused? You should be, and we all should be.
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