If we evolved from primates, why should I believe that my thoughts are coherent and true — Georgios Bakalis
If we evolved from primates, why should I believe that my thoughts are coherent and true, thus why would I believe we evolved? — Georgios Bakalis
Edit: I have found out that ‘Darwin’s doubt’ is not the thing I have described in the above. So that I don’t have to rewrite a load of things, just keep this in mind. — Georgios Bakalis
Causality is a huge selection pressure. — counterpunch
My biggest problem, though, is Stephen Meyer. He attempts to resolve Darwin’s Doubt by saying that intelligent design is the only explanation if evolution is true. This makes it more difficult for me to notate this.
How would I write that? — Georgios Bakalis
That's funny, I woke up this morning thinking Trumpism might be a brain dysfunction, rendering the individual incapable of performing simple truth evaluation of standard causal relationships. Maybe the dysfunction has even proven to be the fittest solution to the last moments of survival on a doomed planet, as the authority structure in the human race's most powerful social organization on the planet has not evolved to the point of consistent rational response to the threat of global warming — ernest meyer
That's funny, I woke up this morning thinking Trumpism might be a brain dysfunction — ernest meyer
its a very popular delusion that Trump is gone. He and his tribe are only in recess. Last week, Judge Thomas said he is oipen to arguments that banning Trump from Twitter was a violation of free speech, and as he is in a GOP-majority supreme court, it means his tweets are coming back, like it or not, whether he or one of his tribe run, he's coming back. And probably will win. He came a lot closer to winning after his covid denial than I expected, but if not, I really dont want to be here for the next round of riots. Come to Europe ) lol. Im going for a walk, later. — ernest meyer
Come to Europe — ernest meyer
Thoughts that are not coherent and true would not on average aid survival. — unenlightened
If we evolved from primates, why should I believe that my thoughts are coherent and true, thus why would I believe we evolved? — Georgios Bakalis
Because we evolved to the point where we could reason, think, and understand logical and mathematical principles. At the point where those abilities become manifest, sometime in the last 100k years, then new horizons become perceptible that were not available to our simian forbears. That doesn't require doubting the narrative history of evolution, but it might require re-thinking the conclusions that are often made on that basis. — Wayfarer
You should stop this. Georgios Bakalis is new here and you're stealing his thread. — T Clark
The argument is about evaluating truth statements. Every surviving species, other than h. sapiens, manages to survive and procreate without any such ability whatever. Only a sentient being with the ability to think and speak is even able to contemplate such a question. — Wayfarer
How do we explain the emergence of the logical absolutes in a naturalistic world? — Tom Storm
Most of the errors here noted, and most subjects of evolutionary debate, arise from attempts to extend a scientific model of natural selection to include causal explanations that are emprically untestable, and therefore, not scientific. — ernest meyer
I would say that they arise from the extension of methodological naturalism to a metaphysical principle. — Wayfarer
. But Darwin himself was no philosopher, so much as a product of the Scottish Enlightenment (along with David Hume, Adam Smith, and others) and the only principle it entails is that of reproductive sucess and adaption to the environment. Yet now all philosophy is subordinated to it, as if it is the supreme explanatory principle. — Wayfarer
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