If there is no guiding force outside the drive to survive and reproduce, what confidence can I have that even my own thoughts are not the product of the survival/reproduction drive?
Ex. A caveman has a belief that sabertooth tigers are friendly and that the appropriate display of friendship is to run away and hide. His belief seems to be false, but his behavior would produce survival.
There are many more belief-behavior pairs possible, and it seems to me that if evolution is true and there is no God who is guiding our minds toward truth, then we should remain agnostic about the truth of our beliefs, including the belief that evolution is true.
Thoughts?
2006-06-17
05:20:17
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