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The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism w/ Dr. Stephen Napier

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Is It Too Soon to Get Into This?

A lot of attention on the evolutionary argument against naturalism that planega propounds is on what's called the probability thesis. The idea that my cogentive faculties are unreliable, or would not be expected to be reliable, given naturalism or unguided evolutionary mechanisms. But i think there's another misunderstanding that is al bit more subtle. It's called higher order evidence because it aims to provide evidence a for the unreliability of my cognitive faculties. And we've already alluded to what the problem might be. So suppose i believe in the reliability of my cognitive faculty in a basic way. Well, the probability of my cognitiveulty being reliable, given unguided evolutionary mechanism, plus believing that my

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