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The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism w/ Dr. Stephen Napier

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Planega's Argument Is an Undercutting Destroyer to Belief

If you believe in naturalism and the typical evolutionary story, then you're going to have what planega calls a defeater for belief in the reliability of your cognitive faculties. So unguided evolutionary mechanisms would not select for reliable cognitive faculties. And that's the thing, as your cognitive faculties might still be reliable. Even on unguided evolutionary Mechanisms, they might still be low or inscrutable. But Planiga wants to say that there is no reason for thinking that they are reliable. You have no reason for think that because adaptive behavior gives you no reason forthinking that the reliable,. so that reason is undercut. It's very hard to defeat the deductive argument by saying it doesn

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