<div>It is easy to be a skeptic... Knowledge is so susceptible to the tools of rigorous analysis aimed at doubt. Skepticism is more easily defended than absolute belief, at least regarding empirical based arguments, for those who respect the difficulties in logic, epistemology, and theory of science.</div>
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<div>What is amazing is that some who promote the most astonishing dogmatism regarding some aspects of empirical knowledge, will then suddenly become rigorous skeptics regarding other issues, when it suits their purpose...</div>
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<div>Some assert certain religious beliefs, based on empirical arguments, are absolutely true, and are not undermined by the skeptics rigorous analysis.... But </div>
<div>then the findings of science, when contradicting these absolute religious truths, must face the most finely parsed skeptical gauntlet of questioning...</div>
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<div>Who is willing to be thoroughgoing and unbiased skeptic? Not very many...</div>
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<div>Ted Moffett<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/26/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ralph Nielsen</b> <<a href="mailto:nielsen@uidaho.edu">nielsen@uidaho.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">I just happened to run across this little tidbit from something that proclaims itself as MOSCOW EDUCATION (IDAHO); <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, STATISTICS, REPORTS, AND COMMENTARY FROM MOSCOW, IDAHO, by some-one who calls himself Right-Mind.</span>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 14px"><font style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)" face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3">In the Moscow Pullman Daily News:</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(232,232,232)"><font style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)" face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3">There is only one absolute truth: "There is no 'absolute truth.' " Lovers of wisdom have known this for centuries.</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(232,232,232)"><font style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)" face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3">—<b>Ralph Nielsen, Moscow</b></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 14px"><font style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)" face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3">Maybe that statement is embraced by Nielsen; but he would fail 8</font><font style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)" face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="2"><sup>th</sup></font><font style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)" face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3"> grade logic for making such an illogical statement.</font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 14px"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">It would seem that Mr. Right-Mind has never heard of a logical paradox. As a matter of fact, I heard this from a graduate of Gonzaga University, who said he has never forgotten this humbling fact that was taught by his philosophy professor at Gonzaga. </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 14px"><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">We can even find a logical paradox in the Bible, "It was one of them, their very own prophet, who said, "Cretans are always liars..." That testimony is true" (Titus 1:12). As Right-Mind would say, "<span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); LINE-HEIGHT: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><font style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)" face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3">Maybe that statement is embraced by Paul, in his letter to Titus; but he would fail 8</font><font style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)" face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="2"><sup>th</sup></font><font style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)" face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3"> grade logic for making such an illogical statement."</font></span></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 14px"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Ralph Nielsen</span></p><span class="sg">
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