Quote Originally Posted by TomOfSweden View Post
The trick is to pick the one that is as much like reality as possible, and just pretend like its the truth, for our own mental well being. I mean, demanding it from ourselves to only accept he absolute truth would drive anybody bonkers. This explains the total mess the world is in. How do you have an argument where everybody involved that no matter the outcome everybody will know they all are wrong.
I think that this is the real goal of science, as it has evolved. Very seldom do scientists declare something to be the absolute truth anymore. They now prefer to hedge their bets by saying something is true "to the best of our knowledge!" And our knowledge is, hopefully, still growing. So what is true today may not be quite so true tomorrow.

So we should try to keep away from declaring things to be absolutely true. I suppose we can leave that exercise to religion.