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Question: How Can We Know One Belief Selected for By Evolution is Superior to Another?

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Theist:  You say there is no God. 

Evolutionary Materialist [EM]:  Yes.

Theist:  Yet belief in God among many (if not most) humans persists.

EM:  I cannot deny that.

Theist:  How do you explain that?

EM:  Religious belief is an evolutionary adaption. 

Theist:  But you say religious belief is false.

EM:  That’s correct.

 Theist:  Let me get this straight.  According to you, religious belief has at least two characterizes:  (1) it is false; and (2) evolution selected for it.

 EM [looking a little pale now, because he’s just figured out where this is going]:  Correct.  

Theist:  You believe the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis [NDS] is true.

EM:  Of course. 

Theist:  How do you know your belief in NDS is not another false belief that evolution has selected for? 

EM:  ___________________ 

Our materialist friends are invited to fill in the blank.