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Your last post missed my point. I wasn’t saying the evolutionary development of the brain is the question. It is, however, a means of explaining how we can understand logic without need for a deity. Your statement is that without God there is no accounting for the ability to reason. This explains it perfectly, without the need for a deity. We can justify ‘the laws of logic’ because we can understand how natural and artificial processes can work and lead to certain outcomes. We can understand how processes are universal, because we can understand how the processes are not random, so will be universal (no god needed). There is no need for a god to make the argument work, as there is with oxygen for respiration. You can have faith that God set the conditions for how the Universe came to be, but there isn’t a necessity for logical determination to make sense. There is no stealing from the Bible needed to understand how frictional energy creates heat (with or without knowledge of what that actually is). Humans were using logic before the Bible, and could do so without Christian values.
Also, many physicists, religious or not, would take exception to the idea that the Universe is an accident.