Absolute truth?

Truth and absolute truth are like a circle. We know a truth in transition within the circle. And we may know the center of the circle, too, which is constant. When the absolute truth has no change at the center, the rest is all subject to change. Since all else is changing, one seeks absolute truth. Philosophy is born of the concern about transient nature of things. We have our basic fear and concern about all that we hold dear including life itself. We know, they will not last long. We know, they are not durable, they are not fixed. Hence, we seek the absolute truth, if there be anything!!
Vijay

yes there are absolute truths. Things are the way they are despite our knowledge of them and so they are truely themselves.

Isn't it strange that what humans call absolute truths has so many truths. LOL

Yes trees can become petrified and become rock, however, once they become rock they are no longer trees.

Rocks are rocks and trees are trees unless like dinosaurs and plant life they become petrified.

You know what north was talking about. Haven't you got better things to do than to spend your time being a contrary simpleton? My past experience of you says that you are more intelligent than that.

I have yet to see a petrified wood produce , grow bark , leaves and sap

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I have yet to see a petrified wood produce , grow bark , leaves and sap

Have you considered that it might be because you are not thinking it through? Here's some considerations I posted earlier, because it seems you guys missed it. It was in response to Dasein saying that the sand doesn't become a tree, the seed does:

How do you suppose the seed becomes a tree? Does the matter that makes up the seed magically multiply? Where does the additional matter that makes the tree come from? Is it locked away in the tiny thing that lands in the ground?

What do you think happens with the stuff you eat? Does it just pass through you? No. Your body uses the matter you put into yourself as food to build new cells and renew itself. If you eat a burger, part of what used to be a cow now is altered and becomes you. It becomes the cells your body is made of. The same way with a tree. For the seed to grow it needs additional matter to transform into "tree", and nowhere can that be found except in the ground which the seed lies in.

So if that ground is petrified wood crushed into sand, that old tree will become a new tree, produce bark, leaves and sap.

Not replaced by sand. Changed into sand. It's not about genetic material. You need to expand your perspective to get what I am saying. It is the same matter, and even though all its genetic properties are lost, the energy it contains is used by the seed to form a new tree, so there is no way around it. Petrified wood can become the bodies of living trees. Dead people who rot in the ground can become nutrients for plants, animals can eat the plants, transferring the matter from the dead bodies to their own bodies. Then a human might eat the animal, and the matter that was once an entirely different person years and years ago now becomes part of the body of someone living today. This is all a big cycle which we are all part of.

I think both of you are on the right track. You're talking past each other, because of how we're trying to communicate what happens in evolution. After all, that's all there is. Even chemical elements, as pure as they are, do change. It's only a matter of time, and how the environment impacts everything; even human manipulation.

Don't you agree?

Let's split some atoms, and let this one go.