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2 Post author: adamzerner 17 June 2015 05:47PM

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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 18 June 2015 05:40:44AM 0 points [-]

The original post was using "sane" to mean something closer to x-rational and highly effective, rather than sane in the conventional sense - I probably should have used quote marks to emphasise this. I'll edit my comment.

Atheists/agnostics are highly overrepresented at the far end of the bell curve - 93% of Nobel prize winning scientists are atheist/agnostic.