(October 4, 2013 at 11:12 am)Rational AKD Wrote: I suppose they will have to take that up with Richard Dawkins then. he writes in The God Delusion "since we are creatures of natural selection, we cannot totally trust our own senses." Daniel Dennett in Breaking the Spell claims "people who have theistic beliefs only because they helped our ancestors survive difficult times." if this apparently applies to theistic beliefs, why not naturalism?
That is not what P2 claims. P2 claims that evolution operates with the goal of survivability, and that is not what Dawkins and Dennett are saying.
(October 4, 2013 at 11:12 am)Rational AKD Wrote: if our cognitive faculties are developed for us to behave adaptively, why would our ability to determine probabilities be necessarily accurate?
I don't follow. What do you mean by "behave adaptively"?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
