Chris L Peterson wrote in
:

On Sun, 29 Apr 2018 12:25:07 +0200, Paul Schlyter
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 14:23:28 -0600, Chris L Peterson
wrote:
No evidence can ever be strong enough to overcome religious
faith.

If so, science and religion are mutually incompatible.

Science and religion are absolutely mutually incompatible.

If so, why are there people who call themselves religious but
who are reasonable and not zealot fundamentalists?

They are broken. They are only able to achieve reason in some
areas by compartmentalization, the psychological protection
against cognitive dissonance. The compartmentalization is
necessary precisely because religion and reason can't coexist.

And why did e.g. Isaac Newton, who was religious all through his
life, make such remarkable scientific breakthroughs?

Isaac Newton wasn't a scientist in any modern sense of the word.
And he was profoundly irrational in many aspects of his life.

Nice dodge. Newton laid the foundations of modern physics that are
still taught today.

Your hallucinationi that he wasn't a scientists suggests you need
professional psychiatric help.

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