The Argument Clinic

[Roy (30-year veteran)]

@lee_merrill

@Roy

… it neglects that the arrangements of those mindless atoms have been honed by billions of years of evolution in a world where valid decision-making and accurate assessment of reality tend to enhance survivability.

But a pathological fear of say, cats, might be a fitness benefit if cats became primary carriers of Covid. Evolution need not give true perceptions of reality.

Creation need not either. But Evolution will naturally tend that way, while creation wouldn’t.

@Roy

In contrast, if your brain was the creation of a tyrannical deity who demands his subjects worship him or he’ll torture them for all eternity, you definitely would have no reason to trust your thoughts.

This gets back to whether God is perfect Reason, and I believe he is. Whether God is perfectly loving (and I believe this also) is another topic.

What you believe is irrelevant, not least because you believe this is a city that has never been rebuilt.