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Recently, Neil Tyson made a video where he talked about that secularization of Judaism, of how Spinoza (who was Jewish) realized that magical thinking is no thinking at all, and to be a scientist (academic) you have to reject that, and he rejected the Bible, its fairytales, miracles, and superstitions, and therefore influenced many other Jews who became scientists (like Einstein).
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But, let's face it, something like that is yet to come to Islam.

Spinoza's theology is fascinating. It shows how many people who believe in God do not believe in talking snakes, etc. It's true that his theology appealed to Einstein and other important thinkers. 

This is from the Wikipedia page on Spinoza:

Spinoza's system also envisages a God that does not rule over the universe by Providence, by which it can and does make changes, but a God that is the deterministic system of which everything in nature is a part. Spinoza argues that "things could not have been produced by God in any other way or in any other order than is the case,";[95] he directly challenges a transcendental God that actively responds to events in the universe. Everything that has and will happen is a part of a long chain of cause-and-effect, which, at a metaphysical level, humans are unable to change. No amount of prayer or ritual will sway God. Only knowledge of God provides the best response to the world around them.

So, as I said, it shows that many Jews who are religious do not believe in stupid stuff. 

I'm skeptical, though, that anyone here agrees that "only knowledge of God provides the best response..."

No doubt there are a lot of Muslims who have read Spinoza. It would be dangerous to assert that his kind of thinking has had no influence among them. And we know there are various kinds of thinking among practicing Muslims, with various approaches to interpretation, literalism, etc. Blanket statements about what all Muslims think would risk oversimplifying.