Might God Help Explain Moral Knowledge?

Abstract Although owing to proper basicality, phenomenal conservatism, and deliberative indispensability our axiomatic moral judgments seem be prima facie justified, the question of potential undercutting defeaters can pose a challenge knowledge. Evolutionary debunking arguments various stripes are one more recent widely discussed contenders for such defeater. Because likes Michael Ruse, Richard Joyce, Sharon Street, have attracted much attention. Their general structure features an empirical premise according which process evolution has had significant impact on stock even judgments. The epistemic it that if holds, then knowledge is severely challenged not debunked altogether, perhaps realism itself, since faculties can’t reliably put us in touch with objective truths, those truths out job ontology. Since most outspoken evolutionary debunkers secularists, they somewhat understandably tend smuggle something naturalistic origins thesis into their conception evolution, thus precluding divine guidance process, renders formidable them evade force challenge. Unsurprisingly Street all end up abandoning any predicated it. Theism, however, potentially provides defeater-defeater against argument(s) (if defeater-deflector), by rejecting as gratuitous theological add-on need attached, carving room divinely guided may well ensure correspondence between truth at least nonnegotiable convictions.