Truth? I dare you.

I’ve been having a minor philosophical discussion with two of the most intelligent commentators in the Wisconsin Cheddarsphere, discount viagra viagra Rick Essenberg of Shark and Shepherd and Professor John McAdams of Marquette Warrior about the differences between science and Intelligent Design.

I won’t rehash our perspectives here, cialis sales but it did raise an interesting question for me:

How does someone choose one religion over another?

The thing about science is that evidence and experimentation are used to separate legitimate sciences like chemistry from pseudosciences like alchemy.

However religions are impervious to experimentation (the reason why Intellegent Design is not and can never be a science), which is way believers generally rely on “revealed truth” or revelation as the foundation for their beliefs.

But since basically all modern religions claim that they are based on “revealed truth” from God (or gods, or devils, or aliens) how do you determine which one is the real “revealed truth?”

So my question to believers of all faiths is how do you know that YOUR revealed truth is the right revealed truth?

And how would you prove it, if you had to?

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