The Intuition Argument for God's Existence

In this video, I show how our commitment to the reliability of intuition can only be justified if one possesses a belief in God's existence.

[expandingtruth]

I’ve never even heard of this argument! Thanks!

[JScholastic]

Not necessarily and argument for Gods existence but an argument for leading us to the conclusion that intuition can only be justified by Gods existence.

[krzyszwojciech]

First of all, I think many intuitions we actually get from experience.
For instance the intuition - often wrong, btw - about how the physical world interacts and how you can interact with it safely.
But some, I agree, go deeper.
What is curious to me is it that you apparently equate basic intuitions we may have - like those about social interactions (also party gained from experience though, tested and refined as you grow older from more often than not a crying selfish infant), or basic math skills, like comparing amounts, or basic logic, or applying identity to objects - to high level intuitions you can only develop by studying.

To gain intuition about more complex math or logic and argumentation or ethics and morality or even metaphysics, you need to study a lot, you need to use reason and extensively so - torture the model of reality you might have had in you head or that others have, until it's more consistent and fits better with reality or until you falsify them.
Having those basic intuitions and skills, you can build on them further. And I see no problem with evolution generating those basic ones.

Taking that into consideration but having principle of charity in mind, I think your argument at best reduces to some argument from reason.

[philosophyman]

Our different reactions in those 2 scenarios can be atrributed to how our brain modulates and reacts to our values. I can explain more but it would take a lot of writing and I want to get to more concrere arguments

[robertsimonuy]

How should we respond to the "it is possible that an MGB doesnt exist" objection?

[encounteringjack]

I imagine it being something like this with evolution.

The ones to survive are the ones capable enough to do so regardless of the reason. In order to survive, we’d want to interpret data correctly so that we don’t mistakenly think something dangerous or unwanted is identified. This is because if we don’t have that correct interpretation we’d all die.

Due to the rise of predators, we’d want to find ways of protecting ourselves against them. They want to survive as well and will likely gain more abilities too. This is consistent with the animals we see. Another thing is that we need a source of fuel so we can continue thriving. Which is why we get food. All that amounts to more complex routines over time. These can play role in social dynamics which arises out of the benefits of being in a group, working together to survive.

Finally, someone uses these concepts and abilities arisen from social dynamics and/or survival tactics to come up with the earliest abstract idea. Which then leads others to wonder about those ideas too. This is because those ideas would be proven useful and other important ideas may come.

This is one possible way reasoning and logic came out of evolution.

The intuitions would develop over time as we grew intellectually.

[georgecataloni]

Intuition isn't magic. It's an educated guess, or even a deduction, based on unconscious thought processing a lot more data than the conscious mind can reasonable perform. We could absolutely evolve this, and it would benefit us to do so. In fact, animals seem to do this to avoid danger really fast.

[jamesbishop]

“How would having intuition about metaphysics or epistemology yield any type of survival value?”

Well, couldn’t morality for example, be an evolutionary concept yielding survival value, since morals can come into play during life or death situations? i.e. Cannibilism.

I’m out of my depth, so forgive me if the question is dumb lol

[jeremyhansen]

So you're intuition is that intuitions, ie baseless yet self evident truths, must be based in God's existence. Ok

[kevinshirley]

Perception errors from limitations that objectively effect us all lead to objective conclusions that can be false will ALSO mimic natural intuition.... So to say that god's existence is intuitive in us ignores the point that the god conclusion is actually a naturally occurring error in logic. Just because something is objective does not mean it is intuitive or that its of truth.

[theoskeptomai]

Why don't you call this argument what it really is: Argument from Incredulity.