For me it has to be radio-dating, the age of everything. It contradicts so many belief systems and also gives the universe's chemistry set the means to do so many 'experiments' with varying results.
With so much time, so much is possible...
What piece of evidence has contributed most to your world view?
by snare&racket 14 Replies latest jw friends
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NewChapter
Genetics. Genetics has proven that the Theory of Evolution is predictive.
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designs
Robert Jastrow's- God And The Astronomers, shifted things into neutral
Stephen Hawking's- A Brief History Of Time, sealed the deal about Genesis
Anthropology- Syria, Egypt, France with tribes and communites circa 10,000 B.C., hard evidence trumps religious beliefs.
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blondie
World View
A theory of the world used for "living" in the world.
Mine was not so scientific. I have lived in several countries and done work with, worked with, and tutored people from 20 countries and cultures. I learned that people are more similar than they are different. I have a new student from Ghana and have been working with the Hmong community. I grew and widened most when I started working with Asian cultures where I had my least experience. I just let people tell me about their lives, basically what their worldview is. It goes 2 ways, they learn about me and I learn about them.
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Ucantnome
Ive been wracking my brains for a while and at the moment nothing. No evidence that i can think of as evidence of anything. I keep looking up the meaning of evidence but it's no good.
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Nika Bee
I am not sure how to define "world view".
For me it depends how far I "zoom in": on the most universal level, it would be mathematics and its derivatives such as general relativity or cosmology (although I am not sure if this counts as evidence). It puts us humans in perspective, there is nothing special about our little planet.
On a more zoomed in level, anthropology. In connection with this personal experiences with people from other countries. I agree with blondie on this. working and living with people from different cultures puts your own worl view into perspective. As an "international student" in France and later the US I had room mates from almost all Central European countries as well as from Russia, Korea and China. My fellow students are from every continent.
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Dismissing servant
Genetic heredity! The fact that humans and chimps are closer related to each others than chimps and gorillas! But foremost, all these primates have the same mutation in i specific gene...a mutation that makes us dependent to get external vitamine C through food. This disproves indirectley creationism....unless God is a sadistic bastard thats creates different species with the same mutation!
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cofty
ditto - the genetic evidence for the common descent of all living things including Homo sapiens. It is beyond all reasonable dispute.
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bohm
As a kid, reading about how Edward Hubble discovered the expansion of the universe.