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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 May 2008 08:26:49PM 7 points [-]

Poke: The difference between a scientist and a theologian is not a difference of rationality or a difference between how their cognitive processes approximate Bayesian insights. The difference is simply that one studied science and trained as a scientist and now works in a laboratory while the other studied theology and trained as a theologian and now works in the theology department.

A... fascinating... perspective. But presumably even you admit that they're doing something different, or what does the scientist even learn from their mentor?

Perhaps you would have a different perspective on these matters if you were trying to build a scientist.