Comment Re:Historically blind Idiot (Score 2) 668
The idea that all serious science is done by atheists
That's not what I said at all.
The reason Newton, Kepler, Copernicus believed the "world was made in 6 days" is because they lived before plate tectonics, Darwin and carbon dating.
There is nothing incompatible about religious faith and science. Lots of great science has been done by mystics. You mention Newton, and he was an alchemist and believer in scrying and other occult practices too. Nobody would mistake him for a circa 2013 American Christian Fundamentalist. In fact, Evangelicals would consider Newton a heretic and dangerous person. They'd be trying to pray the demons out of him.
Kepler was an astrologer. You know a lot of American Fundamentalist Christians who are into astrology?
Copernicus? Well, Copernicus was a faithful Catholic, and for his trouble had to delay publication of his work on heliocentrism out of fear of the Church. If you read the dedication of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (to the Pope), you can see how delicately and carefully he had to present his case that the Earth was not the center of the Universe.
And did you know there is a movement in American Catholicism that still believes to this very day that the Earth is the center of the Universe?
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-07-04/news/ct-met-galileo-was-wrong-20110704_1_modern-church-universe-splinter-group
And I note that Charles Darwin's name is conspicuously absent from your list of great scientists who "think the world was made in 6 days". Is that maybe because the American Christian Fundamentalist group "The Discovery Center" believes in Creationism?
So don't you dare tell me that "most of modern science rests atop pillars" built by anyone resembling American Christian Fundamentalists in any way. It's just baloney.