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The Evolution of Naturalism
Dawkins: There's not like a primacy of empirical evidence. Your brain didn't evolve to figure out what happens inside of black holes, you know, the whole body of work by Ramanujan. So you can't assume that the reasoning process you use about empirical phenomena in the Middle Kingdom generalizes to other domains. It's an argument that I've brought up in a few podcasts now, which is planting is evolutionary argument against naturalism.