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Old 26-05-2019, 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by inavalan
Does the Sun revolve around our flat Earth because it looks like that? We don't believe that because we put our faith in science? Can't we trust our senses? But our rationalizations? Should we just submit to faith? Yes / no / maybe / case-by-case / ...


the choice to believe the earth circles the sun is based not on any 'reality' but simply on the fact that looking at it that way makes the mathematics involved easier.

I could just as easily describe an orbit for the sun around the earth using similar mathematics, but such mathematics would be much harder to grasp.

But in neither case have we said anything about 'truth'. We've only made a random choice about what we want to believe, based on preference for easy maths.

And that is a truth: we want to make it easy on ourselves so much so we will grab random beliefs and call them 'truth'.
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