(October 4, 2013 at 11:27 am)Esquilax Wrote: The blind spot in the human eye, our spinal system which is maladjusted for life as a biped, our appendix, cancer, the donut shaped brain of a squid, the esophagus that passes right through the hole in that donut, the laryngeal nerve in a giraffe's neck, dew-claws on dogs, wisdom teeth, a dual-purpose urethra...
I could go on, if you need more.
Selection pressure isn't always upward, but it is always downward; the only criteria by which a trait survives natural selection is whether or not its lethally harmful to the organism possessing it.
by that logic, developing true beliefs would not be a factor in lethal harm. P2 of the argument still stands.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
-Galileo
-Galileo
