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- From: sdoe@nmsu.edu (Stephen Doe)
- Subject: Re: iq<->religion: connection?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.191451.8026@nmsu.edu>
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- Organization: New Mexico State University
- References: <1992Dec28.004232.15471@prime.mdata.fi> <1992Dec28.015958.19290@nmsu.edu> <1992Dec28.113813.22353@prime.mdata.fi>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:14:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.113813.22353@prime.mdata.fi> iikkap@mits.mdata.fi (Iikka Paavolainen) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec28.015958.19290@nmsu.edu> sdoe@nmsu.edu (Stephen Doe) writes:
- >>Another statistically significant sample. Not.
- >>
- >>How *did* you prevent yourself from letting personal bias influence
- >>your conclusions, anyway?
- >
- >Basically I'm indifferent to everything, until there is sufficient evidence
- >or rationality to prove it is useful or correct. I've learnt not to let my
- >emotions rule anything.
-
- On the basis of your posts thus far, I have no reason to buy this load
- of BS.
-
- >>Yeah, and you think that an "emotional attachment" to something
- >>you don't agree with, doesn't qualify as a flame.
- >
- >It wasn't meant as a flame, and that's what matters.
-
- It was a flame.
-
- >>
- >>You know what you sound like? You sound like Christians who say that
- >>we allow willful pride or arrogance to blind us to the truth. That's
- >>a very irritating position to take, because it's irrational. It must
- >>be very comforting, for so many people to make that error.
- >
- >Why do you think it's irrational?
-
- Because it means you won't even consider the possibility that your
- observations *might* be skewed. Instead you must denigrate those who
- question if this might be so.
-
- SD
-