Neil deGrasse Tyson on Real Time with Bill Maher
There are three truths
in the world.
There's your personal truth.
No one's gonna take that
from you.
Jesus is your savior.
Mohammed is your last prophet.
Then, there's like
a political truth.
That's just what becomes true
when it is repeated
enough times. Okay?
But then there's
the objective truth--
There's the objective truth,
which are the methods or tools
of science are invented
-and designed to establish.
-Right.
Those are true, whether or not
you believe in them.
And so, I say, "You can keep
your 6,000-year universe,
but understand that that's
a personal truth that you get
from your personal religion."
If you rise to power and have
control over laws
and legislation
in a pluralistic land,
it is a recipe for disaster
if you're going to take
your personal truths and create
laws that have to then apply
to everyone.
What if you rise to power and feel that if you don’t adhere to your personal truths,
you will burn in hell for eternity?
To which truth can you refer to help determine when a mass of biology is a person? To
which truth can you refer to help determine when the termination of that mass of biology is
murder or reproductive rights.
It is not a Stephen Jay Gould non-overlapping magisteria/Rudyard Kippling nary the two shall
meet SITUATION.
Oh and by the way, there is no objective truth. Truths are relative to culture.
To which truth can you refer to help determine when a mass of biology is a person? To
which truth can you refer to help determine when the termination of that mass of biology is
murder or reproductive rights.
It is not a Stephen Jay Gould non-overlapping magisteria/Rudyard Kippling nary the two shall
meet SITUATION.
Oh and by the way, there is no objective truth. Truths are relative to culture.
How could a perspective-limited species get at objective truth?
Perhaps this is out starting point for living with each other.
Accepting relativism.
Perhaps this is out starting point for living with each other.
Accepting relativism.
