Tim Drayton wrote:Don't forget the way that religion over the milennia has actively sought to suppress the employment of refutable and testable evidence, such as when the Catholic church threatened Gallileo with torture in order to force him to recant his assertion, based on positivist scientific research, that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
FreeSpirit wrote:Tim Drayton wrote:Don't forget the way that religion over the milennia has actively sought to suppress the employment of refutable and testable evidence, such as when the Catholic church threatened Gallileo with torture in order to force him to recant his assertion, based on positivist scientific research, that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
I think that is the hub of the matter when differentiating between the civilised world and the world of islam.
The civilised world has allowed religious progress whereas the world of islam considers it blasphemy to update a single word in their sexist racist comic.
Oracle wrote:FreeSpirit wrote:Tim Drayton wrote:Don't forget the way that religion over the milennia has actively sought to suppress the employment of refutable and testable evidence, such as when the Catholic church threatened Gallileo with torture in order to force him to recant his assertion, based on positivist scientific research, that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
I think that is the hub of the matter when differentiating between the civilised world and the world of islam.
The civilised world has allowed religious progress whereas the world of islam considers it blasphemy to update a single word in their sexist racist comic.
Erm .... it's still debatable whether Evolution is taught in a scientific manner in schools in the US ....
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