If someone gave you absolute truth of the beginning or reason of human existence,
but it contradicted your current belief would you still believe and accept the new found truth.
Keeping in mind that this new concept is proven without a doubt.
This would mean you would have to change your current core belief, if you have one.
Would you accept it.
2006-07-15 18:37:59 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
It might be hard, but I'd have to especially if my current belief is based solely on faith and the truth is proven fact without a doubt. One cannot dispute or disagree with facts...one can disagree with beliefs and question concepts, but facts are facts.
2006-07-15 18:43:03 · answer #1 · answered by musikurt 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Beliefs, like rocks and mountains, have a kind of mass, a resistance to change. The more a person's experience of life and the meaning they give it is tied to a belief, the harder that belief is to change.
Anyway, very few things are proven without a doubt. There's no way to prove the universe wasn't created 5 seconds ago, complete with all the internal evidence to the contrary. A perfectly clear proof of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic means nothing (proves nothing) to a person not equipped with the concepts needed to understand it.
The truth is most people would rather die than change their core beliefs.
2006-07-16 01:52:28 · answer #2 · answered by Philo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes I agree if another gave you a different side to exsistance should you belieive. Let the facts state the truth. As always all should agree to dissagree ands then the avenues of information continue to move. If everyone was a closed mind no where would we be. In another fact yes I do have the key to l ifes challanges and the facts will be supported by truth and backed up so many times throughout time when life has esisted contact me for more but do not close doors
2006-07-16 01:55:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
IF it was proven without a doubt I guess that you'd have too. People who have had their core beliefs proven wrong but follow them anyway are called Christians and you don't want to be one of those.
2006-07-16 01:42:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certainly. I'm a scientist. That's what scientists do. But your purported truth had better be provable. And that means on the basis of experiments which I can perform, not by reference to some sort of scripture.
2006-07-16 05:27:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends who that person is. If he is some homeless guy with writing on the cardboard, I probably would stay away from his zone of smell. If Einstein came back from the grave and showed us the evidence of this finding, maybe I would listen to it some more.
2006-07-16 01:42:54 · answer #6 · answered by galactic_man_of_leisure 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist, so I'd have no problem to change my point of view. My life doesn't revolve around ay kind of believe, so no reason to be afraid or to hold on to something that isn't true.
2006-07-16 01:42:34 · answer #7 · answered by KAT 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is a "new concept" then it isn't the "beginning or reason of human existence".
2006-07-16 01:42:41 · answer #8 · answered by blak_ravn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it may be hard to understand, but there are no absolute truths, or indisputable facts. ask any real scientist, and they'll tell you there are only best guesses (hypothesis) . you can only prove that something is not, you cannot prove that something is. remember, the world used to be flat.
2006-07-16 02:10:03 · answer #9 · answered by Kathy O 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It there is solid proof, sure.
It will be very interesting to see how this new truth explains fossils, DNA evidence, astronomical observation, etc.
2006-07-16 01:41:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋