On 1 Feb 2005, at 7:25 pm, Dan Minette wrote:
We do have evidence of societies which were officially anti-religious.
Marxist societies have tried to stamp out religion for years. We could
contrast the attitude towards and the development of science in the Soviet
Union and the United States for example. We could look at which country
made decisions based on irrational assumptions, and what the outcome of
those decisions were.
In the case of the Soviet Union and the United States, for example, there are several overwhelmingly more significant differences than the matter of religion to consider. So much so that I don't see how any conclusion at all could be reached about the relative contribution of religion to the development of science in either.
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