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I don't see natural selection being used as the great disclaimer. I see natural selection being pointed to as a key mechanism by which biological change occurs, and since our brains are part of the biology of ourselves it can't be ignored, but again I don't see how that's being used to deny or short circuit any philosophical thought.
That'd be like Calgaryborn's claim that natural selection is the great disclaimer for morality; clearly not the case.
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Clearly not the case as far as you are concerned, but as you just said, natural selection doesn't really form the basis of any useful line of thinking as far as humans are concerned, in regards to any of the real human activities at least: politics, eros etc...
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Do you mean examining what humanity says about the gods and by what that says about humanity finding something out about humanity that we didn't know before? Just trying to get what you mean here.
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The gods as a means of revelation or path to truth. The search for divine things.