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In reply to the discussion: Science is the Only Objective Truth [View all]coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)actually exist, methinks you're fighting an uphill battle here.
That same 70% would be hard pressed to define the Scientific Method.
The only caution I would make to your otherwise excellent OP is that there may be times when subjective truths are as valid as objective truths.
For an earlier commentary on this, see Wordsworth's "The Tables Turned":
THE TABLES TURNED
UP! up! my Friend, and quit your books;
Or surely you'll grow double:
Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks;
Why all this toil and trouble?
The sun, above the mountain's head,
A freshening lustre mellow
Through all the long green fields has spread,
His first sweet evening yellow.
Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There's more of wisdom in it.
And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.
She has a world of ready wealth,
Our minds and hearts to bless--
Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,
Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:--
We murder to dissect.
Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up those barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.
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One of my all-time Wordsworth favs. We need to take care that we do not 'murder to dissect.'