There is a primary threat to truth cognizance in humanity. It is a culture of college and university professors…those professors who reject certain simple conclusions that cannot be refuted by intellectual integrity. Multiple examples follow in the links listed in the contents.
If you follow the links, you likely will find something you fervently embrace…or fervently despise. I have been slow, even reluctant, to present this website, wanting to present an appropriate tone and fearful that I might fail. Harsh, angry words can drive visitors away destroying the opportunity to make valid points. When the subject matter is enormous, with profound consequences, there is a tendency to shout. Having lived 80 years now (2020), hindsight reveals to me some huge life-changing blunders I have made, with costly life-long effect. That tends to silence me. The tendency is compounded by the realization I subject myself to being called a fool. But urgency compels me to speak, and truth spoken placidly can be easily overlooked or ignored. I have therefore deliberately abandoned placid and tried to avoid shouting. I have wanted, and do want, to avoid language that tends to seem arrogant. There is no valid excuse for arrogance. I regret, and apologize for, any that is found.
To those who care, truth seeking is an arduous undertaking. A thinker who lives and reasons long enough is eventually cornered into a choice between two simple statements: 1) Something has always existed. Or, 2) Without a cause something popped into existence. One statement is true absolutely, the other false absolutely. If you haven’t already, you will settle on one. We all eventually choose. The choice made is a faith choice. Not one of us was there to witness. Choosing the false statement destroys the possibility of arriving at a valid world view. Choosing the true statement renders a valid world view possible.
(A note on faith: Faith is doing based upon believing. Believing is not faith. Doing is faith. We believe we can do, or, we believe we can perhaps do. If we choose to, we proceed to do it, whatever it is. The first movement toward doing it is the beginning point of faith. The goal of doing is to reach done. Faith is all the activity toward reaching done. Simply, faith is deliberate activity toward done...activity prompted by belief. Done, or failed, is the end of the faith venture. No belief results in no faith. We believe we can get out of bed. It is an unconscious belief based upon experience. But we don’t know we can get out of bed. We might die before we try. Nonetheless we begin the faith process of getting out of bed. We put a foot on the floor…faith demonstrated)
If our faith choice is that “something has always existed” (the more acceptable choice to reason), we are faced with another faith choice…what is the “something” that has always existed. The dilemma remains: not one of us was there at the beginning of human history, much less before.
(A note on reason: Accurate reasoning concludes that an absolute basis for reasoning is necessary if reasoning is to be trusted. Without an absolute basis there is no solid foundation upon which reasoning can stand. Instead of absolute, reasoning becomes perhaps. The reasoning might be wrong. It is suspect…hypothesis. Even so, reason we will…we must. We cannot resist.)
Having assumed, and believing “something has always existed”, we (who so believe) begin the long faith journey seeking “done”, i.e., discovery of what has always existed and what it means. We keep searching because we believe there is an answer. We keep searching if we care, if we want the truth. We search by seeking to apply intelligent reasoning in science and philosophy, and by applying faith to the belief that the truth is out there to be found. In recent centuries the scientific method has made enormous advance in the study of nature. But, as pointed out in discussions that follow, the scientific method is often perverted. Fortunately, the scientific method eventually weeds out false conclusions if it is followed closely enough, long enough, accurately enough.