gjm comments on Is Spirituality Irrational? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 03 March 2016 11:55:28AM 0 points [-]

Eve could have known that God was an authority figure

I don't follow the reasoning you're expecting her to have used. She couldn't possibly have seen God taking one of Adam's ribs and making her out of it, for the excellent reason that for most of that process she didn't even exist. Is she supposed to accept God as an authority figure just because he tells her he made her?

Comment author: CCC 04 March 2016 07:37:37AM 0 points [-]

No, but she would have seen God taking her to Adam. And Adam also behaving as if it had been God who had made her.

...admittedly, it would have been incredibly easy (even probable) for her to have missed this sort of delicate social cue when she was, perhaps, mere hours old.