Reply To: Laws of Logic ?

[Siderite]

You keep asking the same question. I would keep giving the same answer. Logical processes have always existed, but humans are the first to identify them and understand them with study. They are logical because the observer making a deduction decides what outcome is most likely under a given scenario, for example. This doesn’t change under the supposition that there is a God or no God. Therefore, the existence of logic does not rely on there being a deity. It does not disprove secular, atheistic or scientific thought. I do not discount that some people of faith may see our ability to understand logical processes as derived by God through its work. This is no issue to me.

Evolution is the study of how all creatures have changed through time. Logic is not a creature, so it does not undergo the same evolutionary process. This is not a big deal, because evolution does not encompass all science any more than gravity does. Our understanding of logic came with evolutionary processes allowing our brains to become more able to understand more complex thought. The nature of logical processes existed long before, given that there is no reason to think that different outcomes would come from different processes or decisions before our ability to understand logic.

That’s as thorough as I can be bothered to go into it, and I have answered the same question three times now, so will stop, as there is no better way of laying out my position and if I get asked the same ‘gotcha’ style questions again I may scream.

Tl;dr: Logical outcomes are a result of scientific processes. The ability to understand logic thoroughly comes from development of more complex brains in humans.