Rational people, scientists, mathematicians, logicians have all danced on the tombstones of ancient religions nullified by Darwinistic evolution — the theory that kicks God out of reality. For some reason it takes much longer for all those who celebrate the triumph of logic and rationality to realize that Darwin had dealt them an equally fatal blow.
Logic in an evolutionary product. It is by chance, according to Darwin, that we evolved to share a sense of comfort with statements like: “If A=B, and B=C, then A=C”. Our civilization has been built on such shared sense of comfort and ‘truth’. Much as ancient societies were built on shared stories of divinity. There is nothing ‘absolute’ in logic, no premise that is hooked and anchored outside our evolutionary built brain. Rigorous mathematicians like Bertrand Russell, and G. H. Hardy have admitted that logical axioms are arbitrary, and are effective because of a shared sense of comfort in their veracity, not because they have any relationship with the truth.
Imagine a student responding to his teacher: “If A=B, and B=C, then clearly A ≠ C. It’s obvious, equality has maxed out, and now A and C cannot be equal. You are trying to trick me, teacher, right?”
Teacher: “Come on, Johnny, it’s not funny, it’s math, I need you to be serious!”
Student: “I am very serious, teacher. Don’t you see that equality is not like a ball that you can pass around, it is a solid connection between two parties, and if A=B, and B=C then to preserve the very notion of this relationship, we must state that A and C are unequal. It’s so obvious to me, teacher, that I don’t see how you can argue otherwise!”
Poor Johnny will end up lingering in the margins of society, feeling dumb and inadequate. Much as gay people used to live. Human society punishes the non-conformist while paying lip service to the contrary. Evolution of bees or people is based on shared convictions. We established a human society because the majority of us, reading this and other axioms (e.g. Euclide’s postulates of geometry) we respond positively, and likewise. Much as we all crave sugar when depleted, and much as we all have a sense of pain when a knife rips through our skin. The agreement zone is where we build our societies. And much as ancient stories about divinity have no foundation to stand on, so it is with our edifice of math, science, and technology.
Do you want truth, turn around, and march Backwards to our embryonic origins. Do you desire a well founded premise to work from? The Unbound Ignorance.
Gideon Writes 
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