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Originally Posted by ZDan
You can believe in God and science at the same time. "God" created the universe? OK, *how*? The logical rational pursuit of that knowledge, with an *open mind* and without preconceived notions, that is science. OF course belief in "God" is not required to *science* but if you are doing it right it shouldn't make any difference.
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This is correct. Someone can believe in anything magical and believe in things that are objective at the same time. Kids believe in Santa Claus and can understand that germs come from microbes at the same time, and adults can do the same thing with magical thinking.
The problem is when people like Unplugem have to reconcile being a fundamentalist/literalist, beholden to his holy book, with what we know through science. When he claims the world is flat, the earth is 6000-10000 years old, or whatever, he goes from being typically irrational to being atypically irrational, making giant leaps of mental gymnastics and conspiracy theories to maintain his irrational beliefs.