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Sat Dec-18-04 12:14 PM
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| 122. The horns of the dilemma for the evolutionary materialist, |
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given what you seem now to be admitting---namely, that there is only a contingent relation between adaptiveness and truth-tracking---are these:
---the more you regard our cognitive faculties to be reliable for truth-tracking when functioning as they're supposed to, the more it looks like they were designed to be by an intelligent designer.
--the less you regard our cognitive faculties to be reliable for truth-tracking, the less warrant you have for relying on them with respect to a belief in evolutionary materialism itself.
And certainly that belief is far removed from any connection to adaptiveness.
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