2. What is the role of knowledge?
Day the Universe Changed: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality
Knowledge is what you think is true, and that truth can be very powerful. The role of knowledge is to tell us how to act. Your knowledge affects your actions. In the video Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality, the townspeople burned a "witch" to release the woman's soul for both the good of the townspeople and the good of the woman. If the woman is burned, then her soul will be released and the Devil won't take over her body; and the townspeople won't be terrorized by the Devil. The townspeople believed that the Devil would take over peoples bodies and turn them into witches and warlocks, because the only knowledge they had was of the Bible and God, they had no knowledge of science. Knowledge is "the body of truths or facts accumulated in the course of time".
Allison Biegel and Nicholas Bauman
