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Now, sometimes it will be the case that tracking truth will confer adaptive value, right?

If you can know that there are two tigers in the next door valley and two tigers in the other valley, you know, that's, it's good.

You're more likely to survive.

But there are other, you can imagine all sorts of other scenarios in the history of hominids where belief, falsehood tracking will confer adaptive value.

After all, what is it the atheist tell us about where religion must have come from?

It is a sort of, it is a belief that system, a set of beliefs that are systematically false,

but must have conferred some sort of adaptive value,

maybe the consoling power, or it's a very convenient social technology

or a coordinating mechanism or something,

some just-so story about how we got religion.

And that seems to be all you're really allowed to help yourself to on a kind of

strictly atheistic account, evolutionary account of human origins and development. And so Lewis's

point in buttressed by Plata here with a bit more sort of analytical philosophical firepower is simply

that naturalism refutes itself, like a strictly naturalistic

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