2007-02-22 21:41:36 · 5 answers · asked by c 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Try reading the bible.
It has a few facts intermingled with a multitude of fiction!
2007-02-22 21:50:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
How can something that is false have an element of truth?
There are countless examples of what people at the time believed to be 'truths' later being shown to be false.
An example of this is the discredited science of Eugenics which had a large following in the early part of the 20th century. Concerned with the 'classification' of race it had some high profile supporters including Alexander Graham Bell, George Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill. The concept was destroyed when it was used to excuse the Holocaust in the death camps of Nazi Germany, and is now regarded as a pseudoscience.
It should not be confused with Genetics which is a recognised branch of science.
2007-02-23 06:12:46 · answer #2 · answered by Corneilius 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
C........all of history is opinion.
Take a particular event and there will always be more than one way of interpreting it. Look at 9/11 for instance, how many false views and opinions are there for this single event in history.
The answer to your question is that all history is opinion, but most of it is based on fact and therefore contains elements of truth.
2007-02-23 06:31:45 · answer #3 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The notion that Jesus was not a Jew.
False, yes, in terms of the Jews of today, but if Jesus was a Galilean (the Bethlehem and David stuff looks very suspicious to me), he was the descendant of an originally non-Jewish population conquered and forcibly converted by the Hasmoneans in the 2nd Century BC.
2007-02-23 15:15:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
almost all falsehood contains an element of truth, even if you might have to dig for it pretty hard.
an example of this would be the pantheons of greek and roman gods. these are anthropomorphisms of naturaly occuring phenomena and recurant theams in social life at the time.
just because the gods did not turn out to be real does not mean that the veiws and insights of the people who believed in them are worthless. Their view that chaotic violence (Ares) and technical accomplishment (Athena) are two intertwined forces which often drive social development seems to be borne out fairly well by trends in recent times.
2007-02-23 07:01:16 · answer #5 · answered by richard 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋