Please keep my comments in context. You said:
As for your comment about no theologians or clerics etc. never contributing to scientific advancement, you may be shocked to learn that many of the "great minds" of science were devoutly religious men.
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No theologian, cleric, spirit medium, or priest has ever had a revelation while reading "holy" scripture or a vision that has lead to a new fundamental understanding
Key point being that no significant discovery of the nature of the universe came from studying the Bible or Koran. If scientific truth was in these scriptures then it would have been possible to derive those truths from the scripture alone. The truth is not there.
I include the Koran not to offend you but because Muslims make identical claims (equally unconvincing) as Christians that their book contains many uncanny scientific facts - but always in retrospect.
A method of gaining insight that makes a mockery of the processes of logic and rational thought.
What! The Eureka moment comes after significant observation and thinking deeply about the problem not via prayer or holy vision. The processes of logic and rational thought precedes the Eureka moment.
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Try to remove your dogmatic blinkers - neither science nor religion offer a total view of reality. They are both partial explanations.
Science and religion are not on equal footage. Huxely once stated that science is organized common sense. I will add that religion is organized superstition.