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"I think the example of Isaac Newton is especially instructive: not only did Newton's faith not interfere with his ability to understand reality,"
Actually, his belief that God constantly corrected the motion of the planets to ensure that they'd remain stable over time crippled his ability to recognize that the planets' deviations from predicted orbits could be caused by other, unknown planets.
Other people, who weren't hung up on trying to find visible signs of godly intervention, used those deviations to predict where new planets should be, and then found them with astronomical searching.
Rationality: 1 Religion: 0
Citation?
The paper "Religious Involvement and US Adult Mortality" [Hummer, Rogers, Nam, Ellison] concludes that there is "a seven-year difference in life expectancy at age 20 between those who never attend and those who attend more than once a week."
Now, I'm skeptical of this claim, but it's still a bit shocking.
-for ease of other readers, the difference is in favour of the religious.