I never accused you of being some sort of religious nutjob. But under circumstances in which a person who is more liken to the idea of there being a God searches for reasoning or evidence suggesting that is the case, they would analyze the information with a bias. Not saying this applies to you, but the situation you presented seemed applicable. I really don't care that you or people you know maintain a degree of scientific thinking alongside your religious beliefs. This is not uncommon nor do I find it glaringly problematic. The question was whether or not science and religion are fundamentally compatible, which they are not. An individual exhibiting a purely scientific epistemology would not be able to come to the conclusion that a God existed because there is not scientific evidence suggesting that is so, and, as I explained earlier, the question is absolutely meaningless in a scientific environment. A scientist is fully capable of maintaining a belief in God, but this does not somehow negate the above point. Scientists obviously don't apply their complex forms of analytical reasoning to every concept they encounter because, in some cases, they do not find it necessary. Religion is a system under which a person can make this exception, yet still retain scientific methodologies in other areas. Cognitive dissonance explains why this can happen.