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That's a fair question which is why I also included Newton's work on religion, which was apparently something of an obsession.

My answer is that humans--even really extraordinary ones like Isaac Newton--don't divide knowledge into scientific and non-scientific spheres.

Moreover, commonly used analytic tools like inductive reasoning that are helpful in science don't answer questions like what happens when we die in a very satisfactory way. Even in much more mundane questions humans tend to see patterns where they don't exist. [0] It's still an open question which types of problems are properly the domain of science.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_illusion