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> saying basically that no scientific truth can be an argument for or against any spiritual claim.

This is an agument for "NOMA" or Non Overlapping Magisteria. While this is true in the abstract pure Deist standpoint, it's not true for most religions or supernatural belief systems. All Abrahamic regions (for example) make specific claims about the nature of reality that is in direct conflict with science.

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Are we sure that the religious texts themselves make the claims about reality. Is it instead incorrect physical interpretations by followers of the religion of the religious text?

The degree to which practitioners of Abrahamic religions believe best guess scientific claims from thousands of years ago varies, of course.

True... However, 38% of Americans still hold a Creationist View of Humans

https://news.gallup.com/poll/210956/belief-creationist-view-... [2017]

And also, in some scenarios people mock the bible for calling a whale a fish in the story of Jonah, when a whale is a mammal. However the people of the time did not distinguish animals like we do. We only started classifying animals like that in the 1800s.

I suppose before the 1800s whales were also able to swallow humans. /s

A sperm whale could theoretically swallow an adult human, but it is very doubtful that this has ever actually happened.

http://www.whalefacts.org/can-whales-swallow-people/

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