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You no doubt recall her famous statement in Atlas Shrugged: "Examine your premises, you'll find that one of them is wrong."
I ceased being a Rand fan when I took her at her word and examined her premises ... and discovered that her claims were not connected to the real world. One cannot look at the real world and, through objective reason, arrive at Rand's conclusions.
For example, Rand claimed that "Manevery manis an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others." OK, fine ... but where in objective reality can she find evidence of that? The evidence of the natural world far more strongly suggests that "Manevery manis a means to his children's end."
Rand claimed that "reality exists as an objective absolutefacts are facts, independent of mans feelings, wishes, hopes or fears." Well and good -- but reality itself rejects a primary cornerstone of Rand's faith.
I concluded, actually, that Rand was most likely driven by a desperate need to justify her own atheism. Her fundamentally silly philosophy seems to be predicated on trying to derive the last 6 Commandments without reference to the first four.
"What cornerstone of Rand's faith" are you referencing? Since Rand's philosophy is Objectivism, "faith" is not in the vocabulary. I can't quite get my head around your point.