Argumentum ad autoritam. Something said from Newton wont make it true.
No, I was making an empirical argument: most great scientists have been religious. It would not be too hard to quantify this if you scraped a few Wikipedia links.
>most great scientists have been religious
So what?
Argumentum ad populum again.
Seriously, your country needs a hard basis on logic, math and scientific method. If not, your are doomed. Hard.