I am not particularly worried because she will necessarily learn critical thinking skills if I am sure to be a big part of her life.

By way of observing my methodology dealing with problems, she should generally absorb them. I also plan on teaching her a lot while she is in school. I don't think she should wait until college to learn about relativity or fractal geometry...

The 'specialness' I refer to has to do with qualities that are more complex than what she learns after being born. There are qualities of genetic disposition, there is the complex mosaic of influences from many sources that will form her id, there are other factors.

It means that she will be driven by something that I will ultimately not have control over. It will have to do with her unique experience.

I am not worried that she will become religious. I don't think that I have to do anything to her. I find it particularly egregious to presume that I should inflict any more control on her thinking and behavior than I do by just being an involved father.

Even when she is young, it is her mind and her body and she will have her opinions. We won't always agree and sometimes I'll be right and sometimes she will.

Basically though I have not an ounce of fear that she will lack rationality. That singular quality will solve any other problems she has. Even if she were to be a christian. So long as she is rational, she will treat people right and be a good person. If for some reason in her life she feels the need to indulge in myth, so be it, I suppose.

It isn't my life. It doesn't belong to me. It's her's and she'll live it the way that she chooses.