Scott
Puritan Board Graduate
Al Gore has a movie/documentary out called An Inconvenient Truth. The thrust is that the earth suffers from gloabl warming and people must do something fast.
Gore is a relativist. His title's statement that global warming is a "truth" is interesting. I wonder how he would respond if some said this:
"I watched your movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Truth is relative. Global warming may be true for you but it is not for me. I have no place for global warming in my truth structure. So, I personally don't want to spend any money or do anything, but you feel free to if that is your belief."
As an aside, I was teaching apologetics to our youth class. I did this test, which was memorable and stuck with them (I found the idea elsewhere). I had a bag of Cheerios. I had the students guess the number of Cheerios. I also had everybody state their favorite song and put it in a list given to the whole class.
I announced the real number of Cheerios. I had the class look everybody's answers and asked, "Which is closest to being right?" No problem here. Everybody got it. It was a simple fact. Nobody says, "there are 100 Cheerios in the bag for you, but 150 for me.
I then had the class look at the list of songs and asked, "Which one is closest to being right?" Everyone protested. There was no "right" answer. It was a matter of opinion, or a relative truth.
I then asked is one's selection of a religion more like determining the number of Cheerios or picking a favorite song. Of course American culture treats religion like an opionion. We understand that it is fact. I used this experiment as a platform to make them think through which category is right for religion.
Gore is a relativist. His title's statement that global warming is a "truth" is interesting. I wonder how he would respond if some said this:
"I watched your movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Truth is relative. Global warming may be true for you but it is not for me. I have no place for global warming in my truth structure. So, I personally don't want to spend any money or do anything, but you feel free to if that is your belief."
As an aside, I was teaching apologetics to our youth class. I did this test, which was memorable and stuck with them (I found the idea elsewhere). I had a bag of Cheerios. I had the students guess the number of Cheerios. I also had everybody state their favorite song and put it in a list given to the whole class.
I announced the real number of Cheerios. I had the class look everybody's answers and asked, "Which is closest to being right?" No problem here. Everybody got it. It was a simple fact. Nobody says, "there are 100 Cheerios in the bag for you, but 150 for me.
I then had the class look at the list of songs and asked, "Which one is closest to being right?" Everyone protested. There was no "right" answer. It was a matter of opinion, or a relative truth.
I then asked is one's selection of a religion more like determining the number of Cheerios or picking a favorite song. Of course American culture treats religion like an opionion. We understand that it is fact. I used this experiment as a platform to make them think through which category is right for religion.