We used to think of Jesus and his Nazareth compatriots as essentially backward uneducated Galilean country folk who probably could not read or write and who were ignorant about the rest of the world. Although the town of Sepphoris was known of down through the middle-ages, it was not rediscovered and explored archeologically until the…

Believe it or not there once was a popular song with this title. Of course, they were not singing about Rene Descartes the philosopher. I chose this title because there is a real sense in which it applies to the epistemological efforts of Rene Descartes. He started by trying to find out if there is…