Comment on Your Evolved Intuitions

Thu, 05 May 2011 18:04:50 GMT

An exercise in parody:

The bacterial flagellum looks like a good candidate for an intelligently designed structure.

Many [non-biologist] researchers think Intelligent Design has explanatory value.

Many [non-biologist] researchers suggest Intelligent Design is scientifically useful.

Our brains may have been intelligently designed to...

but we may not have been designed to...

Evolutionary psychology isn't as catastrophically implausible as ID; hence the bit about parody. The point is that merely using qualified language is no guarantee against overconfidence.

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