Carl Pierce Asked: How can we help the religious think their way clear of the intellectual black hole they are trapped

I was reading an article in the new scientist today by a philosopher called Stephen Law and the gist of it is about the way that the religious/peddlers of woowoo protect their beliefs by drawing a veil across reality and saying 'you scientists can go up to the veil but no further'. Behind the veil they put angels, aliens, psychic powers, demons, Gods and so on. Then they insist that there are special people who can see dimly through this veil and that therefore they 'know' there is something else.

When you get them cornered in an argument they often get skeptical aboutreason itself. 'Ah but science is just another faith position'. Essentially this argument lays waste to every position as it brings every belief – such as milk can make you flydown to the same level so they all appear equally 'reasonable'. Of course, you can be sure that this person in reality trusts their life to reason trusting the brakes on their car or a particular drug to cure them.

So theists maybe that why it is so hard to drag you from your mental black holes when you are hiding behind a magic veil where reason can't enter the world is 6,000 years old, milk can make you fly, snakes talk and adam was made from clay.