[extropy-chat] Religious fanatic? Blame it on 'god gene'

[Damien Broderick]

At 01:35 AM 11/16/2004 -0500, Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote:

>>4) Then you should go and read the great novel using this very idea, 
>>Jamil Nasir's DISTANCE HAZE (Bantam, 2000), where a reductionist 
>>scientist of considerable subtlety edits out such genes, in vitro, from 
>>his daughter's genome. The fictional outcome to this thought experiment 
>>might give even an ardent atheist pause.
>
>Logical fallacy of generalization from imaginary evidence.

Do you really wish to see this inappropriate mantra trotted out every time 
you offer one of your own parables? Don't be a philistine, Eliezer. Those 
who fail to learn from literature are doomed to repeat Lit 101.

Damien Broderick