ABSTRACT
Why do some people find it self-evident that there is no God while others believe it is self-evident that there is a God? The answer to this question rests on experience, not intelligence. More specifically, the answer lies in the concept of objectivity communities.
Every self-perpetuating society must have settled on some culture of truth. The world is a sea of different and competing truth communities. This does not entail relativity. Objectivity communities are not equal. To put the matter simply and bracket the complexity of the sciences as we understand them sociologically, the objectivity communities of science are most closely coupled to the natural world and therefore the most realistic in their worldviews. At the end of the day, the survival of any given objectivity community depends on how well it adapts to the tests posed by the evolutionary process.
