So how do we know what is true?
That is the question that I have been wrestling with for quite a while.
When people of differing view points come together, why do they "agree to disagree" rather than try to seek the truth?
"Agreeing to disagree" usually means one of several things: pity, apathy, arrogance, disdain, or a total lack of respect for the other person.
1. I think you are too stupid to understand my point of view so I will not bother to discuss it further.
2. I know the truth, but I am not going to bother to enlighten you - because you are not worthy of such knowledge.
3. I don't care about you enough to try to understand your point of view.
4. Your point of view is so dumb, that I am ending this conversation and leaving you in your ignorance.
5. You have not earned the right to have this discussion with me, because you are so unenlightened. These were pretty much the exact words of an evolutionary biologist I heard on the radio taking a call from an opponent (with a PhD in biology... no less).
So if we all just agree to disagree, what is the end result?
We all have our own views and we stumble around in the dark.
"The people perish for lack of knowledge" Proverbs
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