On Truth and Falsity

                    The Skeptics Distort True Systems

The skeptics contend that because animals come into being in different ways, then no one can ever tell what is the real source of life. In a manner quite similar to that of the modern evolutionist, they supposed that filthy conditions produced insects. Evolutionary theory contends that life originated from some warm pool of water with just the right chemicals in the distant past. But the dogmatic scientist, Luis Pasteur, discovered that life only comes from life. This fact demonstrates that the dogmatists search for the truth, while the skeptics and modern evolutionists become content with invalid suppositions. All invalid suppositions are false systems. Modern biology has demonstrated that life happens to be far too complicated to have ever arisen on its own in some distant pool of warm water. The real aim of the skeptics and the evolutionists is to get rid of any idea that God created life. Many modern biologists secretly admit that the theory of evolution cannot be true. Yet, excessive pride prevents most of them from usefully discarding this false theory.

The skeptics further contend that because animals are born in different ways and have different shapes of sense organs, then they must perceive sense objects in different ways, and since they do, then no one can tell what is the real view of appearances. But the skeptics actually have no way to tell how different animals perceive sense objects. That happens to be just another false assumption. But a better assumption would be that God created each animal with their own specialized sense perceptions that will benefit each animal's survival.

The skeptics consistently confuse true systems with false systems. A healthy person can only be a true system. But jaundice in a person distorts that person's perception and causes that person to perceive the color white as yellow. Both "white" and "yellow" are true and useful colors, but the distortion in vision caused by the jaundice replaces the "white" with "yellow," which makes that perception a false system. The same happens to be true of the person with bloodshot eyes who sees everything as "red." Even though both true systems and false systems always comprise true and real sense objects and/or thought objects, nevertheless, some systems are true and real while others are false.

If a person sees the letters in a book as golden after gazing long at the sun, then that person has engaged in a false system that distorts his true vision.

The skeptics assumed that some animals emit light from their eyes so that they can see at night. With that kind of settled but false assumption, the skeptics demonstrated that they were unwilling to investigate to find the true systems of light and sight. If the skeptics had had their way, no progress in human knowledge with the betterment of human life would ever have been possible.

The skeptics admit that jugglers by adding a small amount of extra matter into their performances, can distort the appearances of sense objects and cause false systems to appear. They could cause the colors copper and black to appear where the true colors were. But both colors "copper" and "black" are true and real colors. All false systems occur as a distortion of a true system even though every sense object and/or thought object added or subtracted from the true system can only itself be true and real. Every false system is like a mistake in arithmetic such as 2+3=6 where every sign and number can only be true and real. Humans can see false systems designated by the useful idea of nothing so that false systems can be usefully discarded, but humans never see unreality itself. pb. OP ps. 27-29.