Mikkel has suggested 2 questions which touch on one of the common ‘believer’ fallacies.

1. is there an absolute objective TRUTH

2. Do humans have access to that truth.

Many ‘believers’ would answer yes to both of these questions but I believe, for the second question, this is a fallacy. Certainly I believe that the answer to Question one is ‘yes’, that there is an objective Truth to the universe we live in. There are a number of philosophies which argue that this is not correct but I think most here would agree with this position.

On question two I often hear it said by ‘believers’ that we each have our own truth, or that we each seek our own truth. In some cases all they mean is that we each have to seek our own philosophy to explain the world around us to allow us to exist within it and to be happy. If that is all they mean by it then I have no argument with them, we do all have to build our own picture of the world we live in and with so many to choose from I doubt you could find any two people who completely agreed about what that picture should be so, in that sense we do have our own truth’s.

But many of them don’t simply mean our own philosophical answers to this world, many include the OBJECTIVE TRUTH’s of the universe in this multiple truths idea. The most extreme of these is the idea that we create or own universe (to a greater or lesser extent) before we are born, choosing the interactions, challenges and environment we will encounter in our lives, in which case it is quite possible for our TRUTHS to be different and for us all to still to be correct. While it is impossible to disprove this position I don’t accept it. All the scientific evidence we have contradicts it but then, maybe that’s just my truth.

In most cases this simply seems to be a convenient out when the debate turns against them. If multiple truths are possible then they are not wrong and it does not matter that they can’t even logically support their ideas.