Hmm … it seems likely to me that many non-biologists’ “belief in evolution” amounts to signaling membership in one social group and opposition to another. (But then, the same occurs to me regarding Eliezer’s recent remarks about “postmodernism” …)
If you don’t use evolutionary theory, then what does it profit you to have accurate beliefs about it? And further, many folks’ “belief in evolution” comes with a heaping spoonful of naturalistic fallacy — if my sexual behavior evolved that way, then I can’t be faulted for it. (I notice you touch on this in passing above in the remark about “certain immoral behaviors”.)
Hmm … it seems likely to me that many non-biologists’ “belief in evolution” amounts to signaling membership in one social group and opposition to another. (But then, the same occurs to me regarding Eliezer’s recent remarks about “postmodernism” …)
If you don’t use evolutionary theory, then what does it profit you to have accurate beliefs about it? And further, many folks’ “belief in evolution” comes with a heaping spoonful of naturalistic fallacy — if my sexual behavior evolved that way, then I can’t be faulted for it. (I notice you touch on this in passing above in the remark about “certain immoral behaviors”.)