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What confuses me is what any of that has to do with any of this:

I’m trying to make the case that confronting people with math and science ignores how people relate to their world. We evolved things like hyper agency detection long before we evolved the ability to create abstract models of the universe. The cooperation mechanisms that grew out of our tribal past aren’t something we can just shed like an old coat now that we have evidence for our common ancestry.

ID gives people not just an origin story, but a reason for why everything is what it is and it says there’s a conclusion that works out for them. You can’t replace that with, we came from nothing and we’ll return to nothing. They think goodness comes from their story, so if you don’t believe them, they think you’re not good. I think it’s there we need to start, showing them that we care about the planet and the future and children and puppies just as much as they do.