Mathematicians use inductive reasoning to expand on axioms to form truths. ... On the same note, many might argue that without imagination, it would not be possible to recreate the past. ... Chuck Palahniuk identifies that, like mathematics and its use of patterns, history also utilizes patterns, "there are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns if you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. ... This resembles how Historians attempt to reach reasonable truths through imagination. ... However, despite the rigorous proof used by mathemat...

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Do the "truths" of science necessarily mean the abolition of religious "truths"? When Flew's falsifiability challenge to theism, made in 1955, is directed towards science itself, we find that scientism so rigs the methodology and criteria for truth that the meaning of falsifiability itself is reduced. ... One does not have to accept Barbour's understanding of process thought to agree with his caution about what we say about truth and how we attempt to say it. ... Earlier in this discussion, it was shown how Turner plotted the way many religious thinkers (again, especially within ...

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Now on a personal note I have denied all agreements with Darwin on his opinions on the descent of man, but I agree and find it easy to adopt his ideas with natural selection. ... This does not go for humans though, as Darwin wrote "Man can act only on external and visible characters; nature cares nothing for appearance, except in so far as they may be useful to any being" (Darwin 440). I find much truth in this. ...

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