Quote from the dictionary:

Truth

2 a (1) : the state of being the case : FACT (2) : the body of real things,
events, and facts : ACTUALITY (3) often capitalized : a transcendent
fundamental or spiritual reality b : a judgment, proposition, or idea that
is true or accepted as true <truths of thermodynamics> c : the body of true
statements and propositions



-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Hula [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 26 July 2002 16:56
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Science and Truth; was Darwin, Satan &
Macintoshes


I believe you meant science and facts, not truth. Truth is more important
than facts.
As Madeleine L'Engle put it:

"Once when I suggested to a student that he go to the encyclopedia when
he wanted to look up a fact, he asked me, 'But can't I find truth in stories
too?' My reply: 'Who said anything about truth? I told you to look up facts
in the encyclopedia. When you're looking for truth, then look in art, in
poetry, in story, in painting and music.' Now this student was doing no
more than making the mistake of many his elders, confusing provable
fact with truth, and then fearing truth enough to try to discount it. If I
want to search for the truth of the human heart, I'm more apt to go to
Dostoyevsky's 'Brothers Karamazov' then a book on anatomy."

Tom Hula
Victor S. Barnes Company

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