I don't know man.. if the mods want to remove it, its up to them. I'm just following the submission guidelines.. submitting what 'gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.' This goes beyond hacking and start-ups, from what I've read.
Yes, I get your point and I also do not feel strongly against this submission. If it climbed to the frontpage, so be it, I am fine.
What I am against is to regularly have such topics here on HN, since except of intellectual curiosity, there is also a wide range of very personal issues involved. People have different perceptions about what is a fact, proof or superstition, they went through different experiences etc. And, when those topics are discussed on the internet, it usually leads to nowhere, because it is very hard to even agree on basic assumptions.
It is fine to discuss this stuff in general, but I just think that the Internet is not a good medium for it. In my experience, it's usually better just to respect everyones right to ones own belief and focus on other things.
