In this post the UD News Desk quotes from Nancy Pearcey’s new book concerning evolutionary epistemology: An example of self-referential absurdity is a theory called evolutionary epistemology, a naturalistic approach that applies evolution to the process of knowing. The theory proposes that the human mind is a product of natural selection. The implication is that the ideas in our minds were selected for their survival value, not for their truth-value. Piotr thinks he has a cogent response to this: Does she believe “the ideas in our minds” are innate, or what? At best, it could be argued that the human mind has been shaped by natural selection in such a way that it can produce ideas which help us to … Continue reading Fred, Bob and Saber-Toothed Tigers