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1 Post author: Blackened 27 June 2012 01:31AM

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Comment author: Blackened 28 June 2012 10:32:57AM 0 points [-]

I didn't give information on how much priority did I put on the author's religion, but it's relatively low, because I've seen some quite rational religious people. Also I'm not sure about the significance of the correlation between

The issue I have with the author's religion isn't about the fact that his religion might prevent him from accepting certain bits of knowledge. It's because he believes in religion in the first place - this had negative implications on his personality - I'm talking mostly about Keith Stanovich's dysrationalia, but it also says that he isn't a strict follower of the scientific approach. Truly, he's born in 1900 when that wasn't so popular, but the fact still remains.