Truth can be interpreted in many ways. However the only true truth comes from your heart. Trust is needed in truth when it comes to faith. You have always needed trust, a long time ago and now. The only difference is that then we didn't have as much knowledge to break our trust or to strengthen our trust, but now we do, and now we can really define truth in our hearts. Assumption is what breaks our trust, what creates the conflict. However the assumption will never be proven, then and now. These things will never change. Truth is defined by our own hearts. We all have our own truths. This will always be the true answer to truth, then, now and until the day the earth ends. Truth is in our hearts.

Way back when before humanism, people had faith out of fear. They feared going to hell and they did everything they could to not end up there. Faith wasn't passionate, and it wasn't coming from the heart. Then when the humanism revolution stepped in, it started self-discovery. Some started to question themselves because they didn't have faith from the heart. Once the scientific revolution hit more and more questions started to be asked. Does everything revolve around the earth? Is it creation or evolution? Where is the location of heaven and hell? How old is the Earth? Questions that conflicted what people believed in. The people who believed out of fear, they are not questioning themselves. The ones, who always stay faithful, are the people who know truth. They know personal truth, and if you find that personal truth and believe it with all your heart then that's all that matters. Truth according to Dictionary.com is "honesty; integrity; truthfulness." Honesty and integrity in ones self and finding that complete truthfulness. Before humanism they didn't have this. They found truth out of fear. Not because it's what they wanted to believe in, it’s the only thing they knew. Humanism brought about self-discovery. Although they still weren't finding truth. They found individuality, which started the process of truth. People had truth, but it wasn't knowledgeable truth. People contradicted the church with no real knowledge. Just assumption. Then we come to the scientific revolution. This was a time of discovery. Then some really started to contradict the church and some started to find truth. Truth being, what they believe in. That is the only truth we will ever find.
We have so much knowledge in the world today. When you’re baptized, there are more than 100 different religions to choose from. We are very diverse, segregated by growing up in a certain belief. So what you have faith in, comes from your heart. It can't be changed, because we have all the scientific knowledge we’re going to get for a very long time. They have discovered the complexity of our brains. We stand out from any other species in the world. Why are our brains so big and so complex? Why do we have special abilities and no one else? These are the questions that we need to ask ourselves. Now we have all these discoveries from science that people didn’t have back then. We are not on the road to self-discovery anymore. Our personal truth is based on personal knowledge and nurture. Our perspective comes from our heart. When you ask yourself questions like those, it makes you think. Evolution is just scientists taking a leap of faith. That is what is true in there hearts. They have found truth. In this day in age we have the facts. The only fact we need now is to find our own truth.

Galileo said:
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them"

Scientific discoveries; fact or theory? Defiantly theory. During the scientific revolution, how much could they really prove? They could barley prove anything, and what was proven wasn't very strong, like stem-cell research and carbon dating. Evolution is not proven. It is simply a theory a guess. A theory is "abstract thought; speculation." Said by Merriam Webster. In early history, science started out as guesses and then trial and error. Tons of error. They have had discoveries, but they have never been able to answer the important questions. HOW are we here? WHY are we here? WHEN did we get here? These questions have always been unanswered in science, and they always will be. Of course they have speculation and opinions, but they will never be proven. It is the same now, nothing has changed and it will always be that way. The bible answers these questions thoroughly. Some may argue that these questions will never be truly answered in the bible either. However, that is the question isn't it. If the bible cannot truly answer these questions and neither can science. Then what is truth? Again, it’s your personal truth. What you believe in as an individual, when it comes to faith. Those are truths science will never be able to define. It has been that way throughout history, and it is the same now. There is no difference between then and now. There will never be a day where there is a difference.

Between the scientific revolution and now science has done a lot of great things for the world. Inventions have been a huge impact on society. They have had major discoveries and the pace has picked up rapidly. Without science humanity would not be the same. However, even though science is so thorough it’s the big questions that they still cannot answer and never will. That speaks for itself. We have written text that has never changed. In that text it gives us all the answers and it gives us insight on what is to come. It is cold hard unchanging text. Science is only as strong as its next discovery. It changes, and during the scientific revolution it changed multiply times. New scientists would step in and either change the previous scientists’ theory and show how it’s wrong or take the idea and still try to prove it further. So when it comes to science and the big questions scientists take the theories and try to prove them further. However, all they will ever get is speculation. They will not ever prove how we got here, why we are here, and when we got here.

So again I bring up Galileo’s quote: “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them” This is meant for a scientific point of view. However, the truths that we are looking for cannot be discovered. They can only be discovered in our hearts. That is truth. So once you discover what the truth is in your heart the truth will be easy to understand.

When we first heard about this essay I thought I knew exactly what I was going to do. I have had a lot of questions in my life and I have doubted a lot of things. My mind set was, scientists have all of these discoveries and there right because they have facts and there smart. Because of all my questions in life, I automatically went this route. When I got home, I became very stressed over this issue. Lately there have been a lot of things going on in my life and I have been talking to God probably more than I have ever in my life. I have never really even talked to Him before. So there have been things happening that have made me believe more than ever, and my questions are starting to go away. I've been having talks with someone close to me and everything that I have been choosing to believe in my whole life is starting to make sense. Before I started writing I though about all the stuff I said in class, and I have been thinking about what I truly believe in. I have come to the conclusion that I have faith. What scientists have discovered doesn't mean a thing; it's what you believe in your heart. Instinct is a powerful thing, and my instinct was screaming at me that I was a fool and I needed to start listening to my heart. This essay has really made me think about things. What I feel, I know is shared with millions of other people around the world. Through all the world history people have had faith, and believed in what is in there heart and really that's all the proof we need. That hasn't changed now, and hopefully it never does.