The Big Picture

I was involved in a debate on the Mensa forums about "Evolution vs Modern Medicine", and one of the participants essentially claimed that I wasn't seeing the "big picture". On the contrary, I know that I was the one seeing the big picture, while they weren't. I posted my rebuttal to their arguments, but haven't heard any reply yet. I feel my rebuttal was quite good, so perhaps their silence is indication that they were losing the debate.

Although, this got me thinking: everyone has an opinion and often these opinions differ. Yet everyone is convinced that their opinion is the correct one. Why would anyone hold an opinion that they knew wasn't correct? You yourself can track your opinions over your life. At every point in your life, you had a set of opinions, and obviously at the time you were convinced that those opinions were correct. Yet a few years later, you invariably held different opinions. So the opinions you had before couldn't have been correct. And if this process happened several times throughout your life, as is likely, then isn't it very likely then that some of the opinions you hold now are also incorrect?

In the same way, everyone feels that they are seeing the big picture while everyone else isn't. So telling someone that they're not seeing the big picture is pointless in a way, because it doesn't really prove anything. 9