Search your bookseller's catalogue for 'Evolutionary origin ...' or 'Evolution of ...' and you'll find a library of texts. Therein evolutionary psychologists use advanced pseudoscience, cutting-edge genetic fallacies, and state-of-the-art category errors to explain away anthropological phenomena. For example, in The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior we learn that religion underwent 'a process of natural selection in which it was rewarded in the evolutionary currency of reproductive success.' It was 'an adaptive answer to the conditions of living and surviving that prevailed among our prehistoric ancestors.' And in this way religion is implicated in baseness (of origin) and scepticism (vis-à-vis dogmata). So too are all human enterprises implicated. Existence is a reward for adaptiveness (not for veracity). Nonexistence is a punishment for maladaptiveness (not for falsity). And soon everything will be thus explained away in the system. The books are even now at the printing press.
But there is at least one volume more to be written before the explain-away system is complete. Forthcoming, then, is the capstone volume that will explain away explaining-away. What I would really like to read is a book on the evolutionary origin of evolutionary-origin books. I'm waiting for the evolutionary psychologists to explain away evolutionary psychology with evolutionary psychology, and thereby to implicate the science itself in baseness and scepticism. How long will they tarry? The system sighs for completion.
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