What is Truth?

mt15 said

My son has a masters in physics, he has been telling me some really wild stuff about time. I don’t think we understand very much about the universe at all, much less be able to expound on something like truth, which touches on what is real.

My guess is our beliefs will be looked at like we look down on the people who believed in witchcraft, or believed that the world sat on the back of a giant tortoise.

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This is going off on a slight tangent, but something you said about what your son said brought this to mind. I heard something a few weeks ago that, theologically, really made me ponder a circumstance where "old earth creationism" and "young earth creationism" could simultaneously be correct, without contradiction. This is probably only relavant to monotheists who believe in the 9 tenents of faith found in the genesis creation accounts.

It was put forth that "time" did not enter the world until original sin. Before original sin, there was no need for the dimension of time, as man was immortal. Once original sin occurred, "time" as we know it began - as death occurs in time. In terms of theology, this is nothing new or revolutionary, but it does offer a bridge between "old earth creationism" that posits the earth is 4.7 billion years old with "young earth creationism" that posits the earth is only 6-7,000 years old.