Trusting unconditionally only means trusting without conditions. In the realm of education, the thing being ‘trusted’ is what’s being taught. When learning provides evidence for why that knowledge is the way it is, it opens up two possibilities: 1. That learning can be tested by testing that evidence in real life. 2. If the logic is not sound, the learning can be reasonably doubted. Doubt is a beautiful tool that allows us to question the nature of everything around us. It keeps us from mistakenly presuming truth about something, and it allows us the space we need to observe facts before we confirm or deny them to be evident. Doubt isn’t always good, and can cause problems in interpersonal relationships. There are other cons to doubting, but that isn’t the theme of my TikTok currently so I digress. Let’s take the beginning of the universe, for example. Last century actually was when the big bang theory was posited, an attempted solution to Einstein’s proposed hypotheses of the universe to suggest an expansion of the universe. This theory was met with backlash, understandably, so the scientific community DID doubt it. However, the expansion of the universe was proven by astronomers who measured the movement of galaxies and stars and discovered that every star was moving further and further from one another. This was the first evidence that turned the big bang theory from a small suggestion in a local paper into a new scientific frontier. I believe it was perfectly fine to doubt the big bang theory because in the realm of science, we cannot just take any phrase at face value. Doubting the big bang is exactly what urged scientists to try to figure out if they could prove or disprove it, leading to scientific innovations and breakthroughs. Once the logic became sound enough and had studies to back it, it became viable. However, here’s where the big bang theory falls apart. While we know now that the universe derived from a hot dense state, we don’t know what came before that. We’d like to believe that it derived from a point that expanded into that hot dense state, but we have no way of studying or tangibly experimenting on that. I believe it was Hawking who even suggested before his passing, that the universe might have life cycles by expanding and contracting, and we must be several universes ahead of the first one. Again, this is a theory that hasn’t yet been proven. Because neither theory can be proven, we lack evidence for the complete picture of how the universe originated. What we’re taught in science classes is the big bang theory is LIKELY a fact. That is, sadly, only a belief and hasn’t been proven as the truth. The reason we should be mindful to call that theory a fact, is because INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE leads us to retain its definition as a THEORY. That does not, however, mean it’s wrong to believe that theory. Creationism is also another theory that presumes that something must always have come from something, and couldn’t have come from nowhere. In that theory, a first mover, aka a “God,” had pushed everything consciously to begin. This theory doesn’t imply that god had anything else to do with the universe, only that it had caused it. I’d like you to keep that in mind. Creationism is ALSO acceptable to believe, because there’s no studies to disprove it yet. However, it’s still dangerous to trust what you learn unconditionally. Most often on TikTok, creationism is tied to the impact of the Abrahamic God specifically, even if other religions have their own origins too. The Abrahamic God has also been met with backlash, seeing as this one specifically has a sketchy history and questionable background, to put it simply. The question I’d like to pose for creationist believers is, why do you presume it’s that one specifically? Nothing about creationist theory implies it has to be one or the other that made it. The Flying Spaghetti Monster could be the real creator. 🤷‍♂️ (Sometimes I wish TikTok would give more space for typing) - @tidalsele