The second reasoning proving that truth is found and not made is by looking at the great explorer, Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus traveled the world to prove that the world is it fact round, and not a four-sided object imbedded in the world’s mind. Columbus proved that the world was round by three methods. The first one, being dead reckoning navigation. When Columbus traveled he used, the navigator measures out his course and distance from that point on a chart, pricking the chart with a pin to mark the new position. Each day's ending position would be the starting point for the next day's course-and-distance measurement. In order for this method to work, the navigator needs a way to measure his course, and a way to measure the distance sailed. The course was measured by a magnetic compass, which had been known in Europe since at least 1183. The distance was determined by a time and speed calculation: the navigator multiplied the speed of the vessel (in miles per hour) by the time traveled to get the distance. Secondly, celestial navigation also, helped Christopher in his quest. In celestial navigation, the navigator observes celestial bodies (Sun, Moon and stars) to measure his latitude. (In Columbus's day, it was usually impossible to measure your longitude.) Even in ancient times, it was fairly easy to find your latitude by looking at the Sun and stars, as long as you weren't too concerned about accuracy. Each star has a celestial latitude, or declination. If you know the declination of a star that is directly overhead, that's the same as your latitude on earth. Even if a star isn't directly overhead, if you can measure the angle between the star and the overhead point (called the zenith), you can still determine your latitude, but you had to measure the star at the time of night that it is highest in the sky. The tool that he used was called the quadrant. Thirdly, Columbus measured distances in leagues, each of which was four miles long. This alone proves that Columbus had an idea of how far he traveled and that he measured the correct distances on his journey, to show that you did not fall off the edge of the earth, in-fact it showed that the earth was merely circular. This would be more then sufficient to prove that truth is found rather then made.
Lastly, the third and final piece of proving that truth is found and not made is when we look at sports in general. When an athlete is competing for the gold medal or to qualify to represent their country at international or national games or even the Olympic games truth has to be found in order to step up to the level of expectation. Truth is defined as performing in sports. An athlete at any given moment can be asked to be great, it just takes the right individual and the right inspiration to get it out of. A perfect example of truth being found and not made is by the late great Victor Davis. This is one of Canada’s greatest swimmers of all time. This man came into the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles as a favourite to win the gold medal and break the world record. As what the critics said he was gonna do he did it and that in itself has the meaning of what truth being found is all about.
In conclusion, the questioning about whether or not truth is made or found is going to cause a lot of controversy and will never be proven one way or the other. In this essay, it portrayed truth being found as the dominant one over, truth being made. Throughout the essay it showed how truth is found through Darwin’s work on the theory of evolution, and on Christopher Columbus’s exploring and measuring and by hard work and inspiration displayed through sports. Therefore with the above being mentioned truth being found is clearly how it was intended to be.