[Darkwolf377]

Note, though, that if someone rejects rationality as a criterion for judging conduct, the conversation is at an end anyway

Agreed, and religion isn't about rationality.

[jonno]

...religion isn't about rationality.

That would be an opinion.

One of the points of this article is the increasingly overwhelming amount of "coincidence" in the universe.

I would argue that it is NOT rational to dismiss this "coincidental" universe as simply a result of blind luck and chance.