(December 31, 2013 at 8:50 pm)snowtracks Wrote: if the evolutionary theory brought forth brains that are patchwork and flawed and as a result the God/religious fallacy was introduced, that same evolutionary brain that now has evolved further to concluded 'no God/religion' can't be relied on for guidance.It would indeed be crazy to rely on intuition for all of our knowledge, which is what you are describing above. But the reason we know more today is not because we just happened to evolve to be more skeptical. We've simply been using the tools we've been given to continue to learn more about our world and our universe. So far, no god.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould