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 know

ing 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.

The essay title poses the question "do we need to learn to think scientifically in order to find the truth?" How though do we learn? And more to the point how de we learn to think scientifically? I might never learn to think scientifically and then how would I ever know what it is to think scientifically, that would be saying that everything I have ever learnt is untrue, but surely just learning these incorrect things shows me that they are true in some way because I have learnt them and if I hadn't then how could I of?

This essay has raised many questions in my mind about the universe and humans, how we think, why we think and what truth really is, but the essay question asks the question "do we need to learn to think scientifically in order to find the truth?" in answer to this question I conclude yes and no, I think it depends on what you are inquiring about, if for instance I make the statement; "I find the colour purple fascinating", did I think scientifically to come to this conclusion, no I didn't but that is not to say that my way of thinking is not scientific to somebody else, my way of thinking leads me too my truth, thinking scientifically can only answer questions that are in some way measurable and if a question is asked that requires one to quantify beauty then the answer will surely be derived from unscientific, rather, emotive, perceptive thinking.

"A lie told often enough becomes truth."

"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

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