(October 5, 2013 at 1:49 pm)genkaus Wrote: All truth may not be necessary for survival, but a certain amount of truth is. Which is why we can safely say that our reasoning skills are capable of discerning the that amount of truth necessary for our survival. Which is also why we can have also have confidence in those reasoning skills.that doesn't logically follow. even if you were correct that a 'certain amount of truth is' that doesn't mean any of our reasoning skills aren't compromised, yet alone all of them as you claim.
Quote:But our reasoning skills are not uncertain.
why? why do you think any of our reasoning skills are tailored for discerning truth instead of being adjusted to benefit our survival skills? and even if some of them are adjusted for indicating truth, how can you say all of them are?
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
