Is atheism self-contradictory ?

[Astreja]

Don't worry, Parsim0ny -- first the monkey has to learn to read, write and speak a human language, graduate pre-med university with a high GPA, get accepted to medical school and pass all the exams, do a 5-year residency in Cardiac Surgery, do a 3-year Fellowship, and get hired by a hospital.  I for one *would* trust any simian that could achieve all that.  Because of the educational time required, the comparatively long-lived white-headed capuchin and the Guinea baboon are the most likely candidates.

More likely we'll see cardiac robots long before that happens, though, and ambitious monkeys will have to content themselves with other careers (parkour coach; rigger, roofer or skywalker; Shakespearean transcription) or explore entrepreneurship.

That's for cardiac surgery, but what about our preparedness to state/demonstrate objective facts about life and the universe ? I can safely assume - and nobody can refute my assumption - that the human mind must first survive ten thousand years of continous genome alterations and countless life-threating situations to begin ascertaning truths of any kind, wait 15 thousand more to consider our reasoning strong enough to start thinking about discovering objective facts. And even then, nothing indicates that our mind is reliable enough and we can never demonstrate it, it follows that nothing anyone can say has any objective value whatsoever.

Well, since Homo sapiens has been around for about 160,000 years, your hypothetical time requirements have been met more than sixfold.

Our minds are reliable enough when they enable us to survive and learn -- which they do.  We don't need great precision in our facts, either; all we need is a good supply of useful information.  I won't starve to death if I don't know the exact distance from my office to the kitchen downstairs, or if I go down there to make a sandwich at 3 in the morning instead of an arbitrary "lunchtime" of 12 noon.  I won't keel over dead if I only get 7 hours of sleep tonight instead of 8.  The speed limit on the road in front of my house is 50 km/h, but I can drive safely on it at various speeds.  I won't get thrown out of the band for playing A at 439.85 Hz instead of 440 Hz.

Life is messy.  That's why it's so much fun.