James W. Sire addresses another excellent question from Micheal
Hickerson, ESN Blog Contributor: Is there a danger that
acknowledging different worldviews will lead to the position
that “all truth is relative”? Yes and No. Yes. If in fact there
are different worldviews (and indeed there are), then one way to
avoid frustration in dialog between those holding divergent
worldviews is to give up the notion that any worldview is more
likely to be true than any other worldview. This situation has
been realized in our American culture, notably on college and
university campuses both in the dorms and the liberal arts and
social science classrooms. Science and technology assume a
determinate, objective reality. It keeps the chemistry building
from exploding. It is, in other words, a fact that the presence
of multiple and divergent worldviews exist in many cultures and
that this has been a factor that has led to the notion that
there is no way to determine which, if any of them, is true. No.
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