In the information era when it comes to finding answers for any given situation or question; most people rely on combination of data, facts, scientific knowledge, religious writings and/or their gut feelings.
Our driving force in finding answers will be logic and impartial look at information from all available sources. We will look at data, facts, scientific, historical, religious knowledge and ancient writings. Idea here is to document what each field of study offers as its viewpoint for a given topic and let reader be the judge.
Data, Facts and Scientific knowledge
Scientists are constantly reverse engineering the nature to find repeatable processes and expressing it in a common language of mathematics. Mathematics is the common communication protocol of the scientific community. Since scientific knowledge is continuously evolving currently it has a half-life of merely 20 years. Therefore, half of the knowledge acquired in
past 20 years has been outdated or proven wrong.
Almost everyone will agree to make use of data, facts and scientific methods. However, incomplete or cherry-picked data, use of ineffective or incorrect scientific methods, limitations of applied sciences, personal motivations and biases render this method inconclusive for forming view points on almost everything as basic as gravity. Still, undoubtedly this should be the least contested source of truth and we shall make use of it especially when there is a consensus among scientists along with data, facts and repeatable results.
Historical, Religious and Ancient knowledge
The oldest fossil evidence of modern human predates to 300,00 years ago. However, our recorded history is not more than 5,000 years old. In those 5,000 years knowledge was expressed in forms of arts, stories and then philosophical writings. Survived historical books and ancient writings are the source of knowledge that has been observed or discovered by our ancestors and been documented for knowledge propagation. Part of that knowledge had formed the basis of our current scientific knowledge.
Religious books are another source of documented history and philosophical debates. Unfortunately most of the English/Latin world only thinks about Bible when religion is mentioned and had ignored a wealth of other valuable knowledge sources preserved by our ancestors for us. We are going to take a wider look and explore other religious books that in combination is being followed by more than 70% of world population. We are not going to discuss beliefs or traditions of people that follows those books but only examine the survived text that had either recorded historical facts and logical or philosophical arguments. Therefore, we will consult top three most widely adopted religious books of the our times i.e. Vedas, Bible and the Quran. In addition we will also take a look at ancient writings that predates these books.
Informed Conclusion
It will be left to the reader to judge the information from all sources and form an informed opinion based on the logic and utmost impartiality to satisfy his/her intellect.
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