Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God

[bennyboy]

Ok, lets hear the argument.

lol

Okay.

First, what's an important question in general? Since only people are known to ask questions, then let's establish the human experience as the context in which questions may be said to be important.

The purpose of asking questions is to gather information, and the question should be considered important if the answer is of utility to human being's most important functions: namely, those connected to genetic fitness.

So the question is-- is it likely that knowing exactly how the universe was created would aid us in making decisions that would help us to survive, to breed, etc.? If you could know for sure that a deity created the universe (or for sure that it didn't), would this affect our survival?

Hmmmm, I think I'm talking myself out of this one. I think I might have to argue that knowing the answer to those questions would affect people's psychology, but I cannot see how the knowledge would provide any utility to maintaining genetic fitness.