SDAI-Tech1 said:

>In a relativistic world truths and lies are temporally and
>spacially oriented. If you are not in the right place and time lies
>are truths and vice-versa.

How does one know when he's "right"? The statement: "There are no absolute truths", is self contradicting and therefore false. We know there are absolute truths. Science is based upon absolute truth.

William L. Shirer in his seminal history of World War 2, "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", described his encounter prior to World War 2 with a group of university educated SS oficiers in a relaxed social situation. Shirer as a newspaper reporter had lengthy political discussions with the SS officiers and was impressed by their intelligence and level of education. If you were a "fly on the wall" and listened to their discussions, you would probably have concluded that the SS officiers mopped up the floor with Shirer. The officers would have had all their "facts" and canned responses well thought out, well rehearsed and nicely presented. They would have done an excellent job defending a political system that eventually brought death and damnation to Germany along with untold horror to miilions of Europeans. How could the SS officiers have known that they were totally "wrong" and this obscure American newspaper reporter was absolutely "right"? I sometimes find myself in social situations with overly opinionated liberals. I listen to these guys spew their nonsense and feel like William Shirer with his SS interlocutors. Of course there's the nagging doubt: "How do I know that I'm right?" I guess my sense of history is my greatest source of self confidence. However it is disturbing that "being right" is not guaranteed by one's level of education or intelligence.

Gary