A case for A Truth Based Worldview.
Source: with paraphrasing.
Myers, Jeff. Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews (p. 4).
A case for a truth-based worldview criterion in this book is logical and rational:
- Reality check. Truth based on factual knowledge about human nature and life on earth.
- Belief system. What is True?
- Moral values. What is Right?
- Behavior & habits. What is the right behavior?
Why is the right choice an intelligent choice? Because it is giving priority to the right outcome. The right outcome is objectively verifiable. The right outcome is always competed for by many temptations and distractions, corruption, and compromise. The human mind requires a conscious effort to think in terms of the future. To think in terms of the future, it requires logical planning ability, that is a cognitive ability of the mind.
Not all people are equal. Therefore, the level of the person’s worldview varies from person to person. Similarly, conscious logical thinking varies from person to person; some people are so busy at work that they have no time to be thinking much else than the list of things that they have to get done in the cause of the day. Others may have more time, to read, to study, and to talk to friends and to enjoy a meaningful company. Age and education also have an impact on the amount of thinking that individual people do and whether they can explain and share their worldview in a meaningful way.
More on the Worldview
“A worldview is a framework from which we view reality and make sense of life and the world.” [It’s] any ideology, philosophy, theology, movement or religion that provides an overarching approach to understanding The Creator, the world and man’s relations to God and the world,” says David Noebel, author of Understanding the Times.”
“What we conceive, what we believe, and our general impressions about the world are projections of something.
If they are not based on an accurate understanding of truth, we’ll always be disoriented, unable to distinguish between genuine clues from the background noise.”
Myers, Jeff. Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews (p. 4).
