Is There Always A Right Answer?
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As a science student, the majority of my studies have involved learning “facts” about biological systems, mechanics, etc. These facts differ in subject and complexity, but the underlying similarity they all share is the ability to be proven. By the same token, a vast amount of conjectures have been presented to the scientific community by ambitious researchers. Extensive case studies must be done to validate or reject a theory before it can be accepted as a “fact”; however, can the aforementioned process be applied to all questions in life?
Does everything have a “right” answer?
Fortunately, there are only two choices: yes or no. Personally, I’ll lean towards the more difficult side and venture to say yes… everything has a right answer. We just may not know what it is. For ethical issues (ie, is it “right” for people to have abortions)… well… that depends on the individual party. We all have our conception of “right” in heated arguments. But are these personal ideas of right and wrong technically correct? Of course not. But this doesn’t eliminate the existence of right. Yeah, I’m playing devil’s advocate. 
What do you think about this?
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Published: 3 years, 1 month ago
You know what never has right answers? Verbal passages….
Published: 3 years, 1 month ago
You’re right. That’s the one exception. MCAT Verbal passages don’t have a right answer. Even the test-makers don’t know the right answer, so they put four wrong ones on the exam and randomly assign one as the “correct” answer.
Published: 3 years, 1 month ago
I think it would be a contradiction is terms to think that everything has an answer. There have been many instances throughout the 20th century where scientists never found the answer. In the end scientists will say it is something but we will never really fully understand it. for me as a scientist it is about understanding it, not knowing if there is an answer.
Published: 3 years, 1 month ago
Man, that’s a really good question. And without wavering, I’d say a definite yes. Of course, my answer is triggered by a strong moral compass based on my faith in God and the belief that His Word is the ultimate truth…. but I think even people without faith in God are thirsting for that kind of consistency — to know that everything can be seen in black and white.
Published: 3 years, 1 month ago
Religion is good in providing us with answers to some of life’s toughest questions. Though I don’t consider myself as religious as the next guy, I do believe in a higher, unbiased entity which is capable of knowing the “right answer” at all times.
Published: 3 years, 1 month ago
I will have to say No. Not everything has a “right” answer. Our curiosity demands an answer to the deep questions of life, but the deep questions, like why we are here? -are questions that do not have a “right” answer because we will never know. As human beings, we wish everything had a right answer, though.
Published: 3 years, 1 month ago
You and Neil share a similar point of view – to have a “right” answer we have to “comprehend” it. Again, I’m intentionally trying to stir up some debate, but the fact that we will never know all of life’s answers does not prove the nonexistence of such an answer. We’re just too biased and ignorant as humans to know how to properly discover these answers.
Published: 3 years, 1 month ago
Wow. Neil is a scientist and we share similar views, how about that?!
I agree on the too biased and ignorant beings that we are. We walk on this earth and we probably see 1% of the world, during our lifetime, if that. We see so little of the tangible and even less of the intangible. If you ask me, it is all a huge cosmic joke.