Recently I came across this video where a fellow describes “The Case Against Reality”, the title of his book, came up with the idea that natural selection would not equip us with the ability to accurately perceive reality. That fitness is over truth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reYdQYZ9Rj4
That the thing we see with our eyes is likely detached from reality.
“But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” – 2 Corinthians 4:3-4
Thing is, his very thesis at he first sets it out is in harmony with what Paul wrote, but only from the perspective of someone still in this world system yet someone who has very advanced intellectual proficiencies.
But instead of not seeing reality / truth because it is evolutionarily unnecessary, Paul and the rest would say they do not see truth because an agency, spiritual forces they have no defense against, have snatched the seed that gets sown along their way from them
Spiritual Blindness described.