RE: Open to explore possibility
February 18, 2021 at 9:36 am
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2021 at 9:54 am by John 6IX Breezy.)
(February 18, 2021 at 5:53 am)Belacqua Wrote: I think the notion that human beings have some access to the truth is a hold-over from religion.....
If people are going to start arguing that natural selection favors what's true rather than just what survives best, we're going to have to throw out Darwin and start again.
Yes; I agree. From the truth setting us free, to Christ being the way, the truth, and the life—I am arguing against something here that is foundational to Christianity. Several other prominent psychologists have made similar arguments about what evolution favors:
"We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness” —Steven Pinker.