DO WE NEED TO LEARN TO THINK SCIENTIFICALLY IN ORDER TO FIND THE TRUTH?
             What is truth? A question that has undoubtedly endured many hundreds of years of ponderment? So whom am I to ask the question in face of the minds that have gone before me, and even if I decide that the conclusion that I come to is the complete truth, so what, who cares? The fundamental problem with truth is that it's a personal thing that is viewed correctly only from the individuals own perspective. Religion is one of the most universally emotive and passionately debated topics conceivable, peoples own beliefs are monumentally important and cannot for a second be ignored, religion could be described as life's rulebook for those that follow it and to even consider criticising this needs some evidence, some hard proof. Does anybody have hard proof for something intangible, no, and religious beliefs are intangible. So who has the religion? Which religion is true? I certainly couldn't say which was and wasn't, could anybody? Priests and theologists could argue eternally but they could never reach a true conclusion (without divine intervention). So many people may be living by a lie? They continue happily on through there lives without really knowing except for themselves the truth, and nobody is hurt by this Until somebody tries to prove them wrong and wars occur. Religion has been responsible for many wars, in and around Africa, even the second world war was religiously motivated to some degree.
             Has anybody ever seen quantified beauty? Is there anyway of measuring beauty other than our own personal opinions, our opinions of course could help to quantify such intangible things such as beauty but we all think differently, if everybody on the planet had the same opinion on something then we would be able to look at it and say "that's why we like that", but there's always an exception to the rule. Truth is a tric...