Dovina22 Mar 2005
Truth is something which can be picked up by an open mind and deflected by a closed one. I would not see any truth in Evolution if my mind were closed to it. I would deflect that truth. This does not assume there is any truth in Evolution, only that I would not receive it if I saw it. I think there is a lot of speculation in Evolution (which I use only as an example) but I think there is some truth there too. We are not discussing ways of distinguishing truth, only receptivity to it.
I do, as you say, attribute a magical property to truth that separates it from falsehood, but thatâs not the same as saying I know how to distinguish truth from falsehood. I donât think that to discover truth, I must first know what I am looking for. That would be saying that I know a truth â how to discover truth â before I discover truth. You can see the inconsistency in that.
The important thing here is to be receptive to truth, even if comes through an unlikely source like the words of Dovina. Wouldnât you agree?