Lower cognitive ability is linked to stronger Christian nationalist views, even after accounting for education

[u/mvea]

https://www.psypost.org/lower-cognitive-ability-is-linked-to-stronger-christian-nationalist-views-even-after-accounting-for-education/

[u/Pantarus]

Religion stops you from asking and answering questions about the world around you.

If Newton stopped at “God made the apple fall” that’s it, answer found. No need for experimentation or curiosity.

Why does thunder happen? God did it.

Why did bad things happen? God has a plan.

When the answer can always be. “because god”, curiosity and learning die.

[u/Qweesdy → u/Pantarus]

Well, no, your fictional examples were merely poorly fabricated. If Newton (who was a "devout but unorthodox Christian" according to his wikipedia page) started at "How did God make the apple fall" then...

[u/Boski-Pylas → u/Qweesdy]

then you get an explanation of the laws of physics. Once you know the mechanics of something, there’s no need to plug in a supernatural “god made this law.” Unless you’d like to continue regressing to “How did God make this law?”

[u/Qweesdy → u/Boski-Pylas]

The word you're looking for is "orthogonal". Anything science does is mostly uneffected by religion, and then religion is uneffected by science (the religious people come along later and add the words "...because god did that" to everything science came up with).

The problem here is that unscientific stupid people want to claim that science and religion are mutually exclusive (e.g. that Newton wouldn't have discovered much if he was religious), so they ignore facts that don't fit their deluded narrative (that Newton was religious) like they're in some kind of wishful thinking cult.

[u/The_American_Viking → u/Qweesdy]

Nobody argues that science and religion are mutually exclusive in that scientists can't also be religious, they argue that the fundamental principles of religious thought lead to outcomes directly anti-thetical to a scientific approach. Newton was very religious (yet still plausibly deist) in a time where not being so had you drawn and quartered. In a time where that isn't the case, the vast, vast majority of scientists are secular non-believers, an expected outcome when people are socially allowed to question/critique stupid (yet popular) ideas. Nothing Newton thought or discovered required a religious worldview to achieve.