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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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Right, natural selection can't be the basis of a world view, so how could people be basing their world view on natural selection? Maybe a concrete example?
Natural selection is just a physical reality; it can't compete with philosophy any more than gravity or geology does... it doesn't try to.
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The gods as a means of revelation or path to truth. The search for divine things.
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Maybe a more concrete example here might help. I don't think you are saying that the gods actually impart revelation or provide the path to truth, more that the creation of gods and religions and all the trappings by the human mind facilitates... what? The search for "truth" and "meaning"?
What is truth? What is meaning? Just ideas, thoughts, thoughts trying to analyze other thoughts.
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Philosophy is everything.
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Tell that to your surgeon next time you need a life saving coronary bypass.
