Week 1 Thoughts

One of the things that I found most intriguing was this idea that there is no such thing as truth. But I guess that really only pertains to that which is related to science. I was seeing "truth" in its broader spectrum of everyday usage, but in those instances, such as when it correlates to honesty, I would claim that there is such a thing as truth. For an individual, in situations that they themselves live through, there can be a definite yes or no statement relevant to the situation in which something can be proved.

Hearing that the purpose of science isn't necessarily to prove something but rather to provide summaries to aid in the prediction of the future doesn't seem to add up to the ways in which science had been presented to me throughout my earlier education. Things have always been presented as factual until otherwise proven incorrect, but there didn't seem to be a door left ajar that let us know, as learners, that these scientific facts did not necessarily have to be the ultimate truths, that something could be discovered later on to make an old fact a fluke and produce a new fact.

In a way it reminded me of that first conversation in class in which there was that wonderment of what defines the edge of the universe, what is on the other side, and how do we know. It seems that we should have started with this idea that there aren't truths and that science is summaries of what has been observed, and because of this there can be more to those ideas. It seems important to keep this in mind so that we remain open to the possibility of things being different in the future, it doesn't necessarily have to be better or worse but it might be different.