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Dave Snowden
April 12, 2009
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When does being open minded, slip into being gullible?

Accepting creationism is clearly on the gullibility end of the scale, but an absolute rejection of any religion is a failure to be open minded (or at least that is my take, and it is Easter Sunday). Other examples?

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