Eduk wrote: ↑June 22nd, 2018, 3:26 am
So you believe in God because of the utility of said belief?
Personally I am of the opinion that the greatest utility comes from accuracy.
I don't think it is so easy to separate those two out. And we all follow heuristics, for example, that we consciously or unconsciously, have decided are useful. They get us, or at least we think they do, what we want, or help us deal with what is happening. Unless we are talking about some kind of apriori knowledge, beliefs all have some use and we base our sense on their being accurate on some portion of that use. Like, they allow us to predict things in lab conditions. Or, when I do X, I feel better, get more Y or whatever.
I've never met anyone who does not work with knowledge based on utilility. In fact I have never met anyone who did not believe certain things to be true and act on them - at least in their minds effectively - PLUS these beliefs have not been, for example, confirmed by science. And that includes scientists and atheists and skeptics, etc.