Is it truth ?

Question

You should just learn what others have spent their lives researching.
Knowledge is based on the knowledge of our ancestors.
You don't need to demand proof for these theories;
just trust them and learn it.

Answer 1

Truth is that one believes by his/her soul for ever and that is supported by experiment/past incidents/ witness and supported by the most.

Answer 2

Isn't it more important to question the validity of "conventional" knowledge? These ideas have stood for centuries as the authority of knowledge on subjects, yet these are studies from so long ago. Look at our world's state. Isn't it time that these "books" were rewritten?

I mean, to me it's just ironic that in order to become a professional, you have to attend a university, and they all teach the same thing. When are we going to learn more about the subject, and expand our knowledge? Maybe we've had it wrong all along. To me, there is no authority on knowledge. We all should put an independant effort in learning and taking in knowledge, and not simply read someone else's ideas and take them as truth. It takes a lifetime to learn what someone else's perspective on a subject was, or we could spend that same amount of time researching it for ourselves and coming to our own conclusions.

Answer 3

YES and NO!

YES! We should learn what others have spent their lives researching. Knowledge is based on the knowledge of our ancestors.

NO! We CAN'T trust ALL of them. Some of them maybe mistaken. FOR INSTANCE:

---Thousand years ago, The Medieval Europe believed that Earth is FLAT until
Eratosthenes, a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer, determined that Earth was a SPHERE and calculated its rough circumference by the third century B.C.

Answer 4

Truth is based on factual, proven information.

Theories are logical explanations, opinions which have yet to be proven to be a fact.

Knowledge is based on perception, learning, communication, association and reasoning and can either be factual or theoretical...it is more about understanding the information you are presented with whether it be confirmed or unconfirmed information.

If one were to just "believe" and "accept" what it is we are told with out confirming and proving theories to be correct...then we would still be believing that the world is flat.

Answer 5

No, how do you know that what one person says is the truth or not, unless you do research on your own, If we followed your advice, we would still believe the world to be flat.
Also you can't believe everything you hear either, take for example those who believe that the Big Bang model has no merit in its theory, well do not be fooled religions answer to this perplexing question has no merit found in fact, it is totaly based on faith, At least scientists have attempted to find an answer, and do not follow like sheep to sloughter, with blind faith, that is based on no facts at all.

Answer 6

Utter nonsense! The moment you stop asking questions, even when the answer is already "known" then you are truly lost.

Besides, just because our ancestors believed it to be true doesn't necessarily mean it is true. How many people were killed going against the belief that the world was not flat and not at the center of the universe?

This is why you can never absolutely prove something to be true but can easily and absolutely prove something to be untrue. (aka. it is harder to build than to destroy)

Well that is my two cents at 23:13 from Iraq....

Answer 7

we need to proof them ,the people accepted the Ptolemy models (the system which the earth was at the center) for 400 years after that 400 years they accepted the solar system model
the people accepted the thomson's model about atom but it have been breached by the other scientists nobody expected that the light has a limited velocity but it has.
so we should find some evidence which shows that our ancestors theorems were right

Answer 8

Yes. We build upon what we already know. That is why it is so important to pass on our knowledge to subsequent generations. Imagine having to reinvent the wheel, the automobile, the computer, and everything else over and over again.

Answer 9

Yes and no...
Any theory worth learning is accompanied by
the logic & proof behind it...

Answer 10

That is a step in the right direction .They are trying to throw the baby out with the bath water.