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Consider a case where you talk to a top flat-earth believer and extract his top 10 reasons for believing the earth is flat.
The act of selecting a Muslim philosopher confounds the accuracy of his belief with the method whereby you selected him. It's like companies searching out a scientist who happens to take a view of some question congenial to that company, then booming his research.