Charles Darwin on the Reliability of Our Cognitive Facilities

 


"With me the horrid doubt always rises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.  Would any one trust the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind."1

For those interested, Dr. Stephen C. Meyer has explored this "horrid doubt" Darwin struggled with in his book Darwin's Doubt.

Courage and Godspeed,
Chad

Footnote:
1. Charles Darwin as quoted by Mitch Stokes in How to be an Atheist: Why Many Skeptics Aren't Skeptical Enough, p. 51. 

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