(July 6, 2012 at 4:35 pm)goddamnit Wrote:(July 6, 2012 at 3:33 pm)CliveStaples Wrote: But you do know something else. You have their CVs. You have their references. They, to your knowledge, are equally likely to provide the services you need. According to the hypothetical, anyway.
The OP is supposed to be ceteris paribus.
Right, but ceteris paribus with the CVs. You have to account for all the available information you have. If you're using religious beliefs as a proxy for rationality, but there's an even better proxy in their CV--say, college GPA, references, etc.--then the difference in religious beliefs might be superfluous.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
