{"id":2630,"date":"2009-12-22T21:24:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T02:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2009-12-22T21:24:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T02:24:21","slug":"things-to-pondercommon-sense-atheism-on-seeking-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/22\/things-to-pondercommon-sense-atheism-on-seeking-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Things To Ponder::Common Sense Atheism \u00bb On Seeking Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>How should I be trying to find truth?<br \/>\nTruth is a difficult thing. Just a few centuries ago, the smartest <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Human\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human\">humans<\/a> alive were dead wrong about damn near everything.<br \/>\nThey were wrong about gods. Wrong about <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Astronomy\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astronomy\">astronomy<\/a>. Wrong about disease. Wrong about heredity. Wrong about <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Physics\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Physics\">physics<\/a>. Wrong about <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Racism\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Racism\">racism<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sexism\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sexism\">sexism<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Nationalism\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nationalism\">nationalism<\/a>, governance, and many other moral issues. Wrong about <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Geology\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geology\">geology<\/a>. Wrong about <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cosmology\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cosmology\">cosmology<\/a>. Wrong about <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Chemistry\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chemistry\">chemistry<\/a>. Wrong about <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Evolution\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evolution\">evolution<\/a>. Wrong about nearly every subject imaginable.<br \/>\nOr so we believe. We think we are better informed than they were. Are we? Is our truth more reliable than their truth?<br \/>\nIf we want to know the truth, we\u2019d better have a good method for finding it. What\u2019s the best method for finding truth? How should we be trying to find truth?1<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/commonsenseatheism.com\/?p=3173\">Common Sense Atheism \u00bb On Seeking Truth<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/639bf39a-7591-41f2-96cc-081ffbdd12df\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How should I be trying to find truth? Truth is a difficult thing. Just a few centuries ago, the smartest humans alive were dead wrong about damn near everything. They were wrong about gods. Wrong about astronomy. Wrong about disease. Wrong about heredity. Wrong about physics. Wrong about racism, sexism, nationalism, governance, and many other &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/22\/things-to-pondercommon-sense-atheism-on-seeking-truth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things To Ponder::Common Sense Atheism \u00bb On Seeking Truth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,67,79],"tags":[192,321,390,525,705,1102,1106,1168],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-read","category-ponder","category-reposts","tag-astronomy","tag-chemistry","tag-cosmology","tag-evolution","tag-human","tag-philosophy","tag-physics","tag-racism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}