and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science – the science against which it had vainly struggled – the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
One of the main problems today is that not enough scientists (broadly speaking) stand up and denounce Islam in the same way they denounce things like “intelligent design”. Islam is clearly wrong when it says “all the knowledge you need is found in the Koran”, yet Muslims clearly think that their religion gives them the ability to determine what is and isn’t science, based on both the Koran and their romanticized interpretation of the historical relationship of Islam and science. But, with the way trends are going, science is soon going to need sheltering from Islam.
To take a current example in the news this week, it’s pretty clear to me that scientists would not be able to try developing “man-made life” in a Muslim-dominated world. You can’t even paint a friggin’ picture in Wahabbi Islam because that’s a usurpation of Allah’s monopoly on creating.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/24/2123242
Many vaccines have pig-based ingredients in them. Are we going to stop developing vaccines because since the Middle East is so dry their religion had to outlaw the pig, which uses a lot of water?
This is the kind of stuff that worries me: the practical (and scientific) day-to-day retardation of progress that Islam causes wherever it takes hold. I believe all its airy-fairy myths about Allah are false, too, but I can live with those, so long as they keep them to themselves. I can’t (and won’t) live without vaccines because their imaginary god is offended by pigs.
