Chris L Peterson wrote in
:

On Sun, 29 Apr 2018 19:23:56 +0200, Paul Schlyter
wrote:

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.

Are they more or less broken than a zealot fundamentalist? The
zealot fundamentalist is at least consistent...

Broken in a different way, I imagine.

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. Note that
I
did not say a religious person was incapable of reason, only
that religion and science are completely incompatible.

Name one other scientist who found the mathematics needed to
express his new scientific ideas unavailable, and then invented
the new mathematics he needed. Not even Einstein did that.

Like I said, I don't consider Newton a scientist in the modern
usage of the word.

That says far more about you than it does about Newton. Namely,
that when confronted with a truth you dont' like, youi'll
hallucinate a different world more to your taste.

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