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Comment by Jerome_Knapp on An Alien God · 2007-11-22T21:28:55.000Z · LW · GW

It really kills me to see an article as narrow-sighted as this on an otherwise good blog. For every intelligent observation in this article, Elizer assumes "rational" airs as misguided and irrational as a fundamentalist's preception of science.

What the hell is he typing about when he ponders the "purpose" of evolution from the perspective of a "God" trying to accomplish something in terms of making a single species successful? I hope anyone reading this can see the multiple ways this is a limited and backwards way to think about this "issue", but if not consider if "God's purpose" was to make a good simulation.

Then when he asserts that "Religionists are waiting for science to discover God" and that "Science has already discovered God" the whole article looks like a retarded athiest argument rather than an article on overcoming bias.

I'm not defending "Religionists", but I am attacking shoddy ridiculous thought presented as objective logic.