Monkey Minds Disunderstanding Monkey Minds

When attempting to make a point with rational arguments, misotheists are generally unwilling to "allow" Christians (and especially biblical creationists) to be right about anything of importance. I recently scanned a Page by a bigoted atheist whose material I had used for demonstration purposes a spell back, and he is still at it. That is, he shares Christian material to ridicule and makes comments that display his foolishness. In one share, a valid point was made but he refused to admit it.

Monkey in snow, cropped from Unsplash / Shino Nakamura

Professing atheists and other defenders of molecules-to-monkey evolution on social(ist) media are often committed to attacking their opponents instead of having any kind of intelligent discussion. It is ironic because they claim to have the upper hand over "theists" regarding reason, yet frequently violate laws of logic.

Indeed, many times they clutch their pearls and holler because they do not grasp an argument, nor can they deal with scientific evidence refuting evolution and supporting recent creation. Attacks ensue to cover for their inadequacies. For example, Question Evolution Day is coming up again on February 12. Atheopaths attack with things like, "What's next? Question Gravity Day? Haw, haw, haw!" One of the fallacies there is a straw man, along with an invalid comparison.

A couple months back, we looked at "Evolution and the Minds of Monkeys". Even Charlie Darwin his ownself admitted that it's difficult to believe that our monkey brains, which evolved through natural selection (he thought), are capable of rational thought. The author of the article that I featured there received an interesting feedback: Critics showed that they did not comprehend what they were attempting to debunk.

If a rational God is not responsible for human minds, and instead they were cobbled together by unguided evolutionary processes, we should not expect them to be trustworthy. Since our minds are generally trustworthy, though, the evolutionary worldview must not be correct. This is one form of the ‘argument from reason’, covered . . . .

J.B., from the U.S., tried the argument on some skeptics, but needed some help responding to their counterarguments. He wrote:

The entire article can be found at "Can evolution produce rational minds? — Answering some critics of the argument from reason."