Evolution is blind, whatever helps an organism survive to reproduce in current conditions is selected for, regardless of whether it matches reality. However, I think that perception more closely matching reality is more adaptive when conditions are changing. A frog species unique to a windswept might need to learn to recognize non-flying insects as prey on or go extinct. Under those conditions the frog that can perceive both flying and resting insects as prey has a substantial advantage.
A species like humans, that 'specializes in adaptability' and social cooperation benefits more from being able to realize when a belief is false, or even unlikely to be true, even in the short term, in the world of ever-accelerating change that we've created for ourselves. The current pandemic is an illustration, some people of the people who have died would still be alive if they hadn't held the false belief that the pandemic is a hoax or that the risk was greatly exaggerated.
A species like humans, that 'specializes in adaptability' and social cooperation benefits more from being able to realize when a belief is false, or even unlikely to be true, even in the short term, in the world of ever-accelerating change that we've created for ourselves. The current pandemic is an illustration, some people of the people who have died would still be alive if they hadn't held the false belief that the pandemic is a hoax or that the risk was greatly exaggerated.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
