Science in Muslim Countries

Link: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;321/5890/745

It is fairly obvious that the izlamic culture has fallen a long way from their very respected perch of 1,000 years ago. They are the people who saved the knowledge of the Greeks. They had impressive achievements in mathematics, science, astronomy, medicine, architecture, music, and literature.

What are they doing today? Nothing of significance.

Why? Religion. The article sums up that part quite well.

The author makes a good start of pointing out that America is not immune. However, as was pointed out on another site, the author does not mention medical research with stem cells or evolution. Plus, America being the over-achieving people that they are, I suspect the America can reach the same level of stagnation in a third of the time.

Taking those three items together (creationism being the third if you did not read the article), it is apparent that America is in grave danger of sliding down the slippery slope to global pig ignorance. The fundamentalists in the US are just as revolting as the izlamic mullahs and they are need to be removed from the planet.

Religion has never been a proponent of thinking and knowledge. After all, their product is the unknowable. Look at Xianity: the curse of man stems from acquiring knowledge. Not surprising is that the whole episode has a sexual undercurrent.

It is amazing to me that an individual would make a conscious choice to resist their curiosity for discovering the wonders that exist out there just because someone (a someone who somehow managed to know the unknowable???) tells them that an invisible entity does not like it and they may not make it into a place where they will be stuck - forever - with like minded, pig ignorant schmucks like themselves.

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