PhilGoetz comments on Anticipation vs. Faith: At What Cost Rationality? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 13 October 2009 08:36:42PM *  2 points [-]

No; then you would have done that, rather than making an assertion about what they believed.

Perhaps you only believe that you believe that. :)

Comment author: SilasBarta 13 October 2009 09:00:32PM 1 point [-]

Well, I am doing that in the sense of judging religions by the factors anthropologists study rather than focusing on how I can well I can disprove the claim that the earth is 6000 years old.