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Originally Posted by awareness
“Now here is the problem,” said McDowell, “going all the way back, when Al Gore invented the Internet [he said jokingly], I made the statement off and on for 10-11 years that the abundance of knowledge, the abundance of information, will not lead to certainty; it will lead to pervasive skepticism. And, folks, that’s exactly what has happened. It’s like this. How do you really know, there is so much out there… This abundance [of information] has led to skepticism. And then the Internet has leveled the playing field [giving equal access to skeptics].”
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I like and appreciate Josh McDowell, but he is basically making the same argument the Catholic Church once made, that "those in the know" should control information for the good of the ignorant masses. McDowell, being of one those in the know, is also being condescending and insulting.
If people cannot find the truth when there is an abundance of varied information, they certainly are not going to find it when information is rationed by some elite.
OBW said, "if we presume that we are all intelligent and open to find the truth." But being open to the truth is not enough. One must be actively engaged in pursuing truth.
I say let the opinions fly. Let the field be leveled. It's up to each of us to vett the ideas we encounter and pass judgment on then. If you abscond that responsibility then having someone spoon-feed you is not going to help and might produce a false sense of security.