If religion caused the Crusades, then science caused Nuclear, Biological and Chemical warfare. Agree?

Answer 1

Yes science did cause them, but you must understand...
Everything is power.
Power can be used for good or for bad.
No doubt about it science has brought lots of good, but it has also brought bad.
It is all power, it is just how you use it that matters.

Answer 2

Disagree and so would every rational person. Religion did not cause the Crusades. The original cause of the Crusades was the harassment of European pilgrims on the pilgrim routes to the Holy Land by the local Muslims.
One thing is to know something and quite another to use it especially if you know it will harm the environment and the population. So science does not cause warfare, people cause war and destruction.

Answer 3

You should not bother yourself about our religion and science. As religious people we also believe in science about the nuclear biological and chemical warfare and every thing about science but not on your belief on evolution of men because that is impossible.

for you to be informed we are studying science and have undergone the teachings about science. Do not tell that you are the only person who know science, my friend.

We are not against science and we believe the works of the scientist but I do not believe you because you are not a scientist. You have only heard of what you are saying in science or have read it. Maybe I know more than you regarding science.

Do not mix science into religion because this two are different things.
jtm

Answer 4

Well if you look at it in this point of view ,yes science did create Biological and Chemical Warfare.

Answer 5

ummm NO.

durring medieval times durring siege situations the attacking party would load their catapults with the bodies of fallen soldiers or even slaughtered animals and launch them into a fortified location with the belief that the dead bodies would spread disease.

if a soldier was known to have the plague they would be launched into the city to infect the entire place.

this was early science. however science may make the war more devistating or more deadly. or to have greater impact. but science did not cause the war or start it.

if you look at almost every major war in the written history of our planet. somewhere religion is usually involved. in the rare case that religion is not the driving force it is secular power that is involved. and niether the religious zealots or the secular power seekers care who they hurt to attain their goals.

Answer 6

Religion & science might have been the cause as you say,but ultimately it is Man who decides to go to war & cause all the resultant destruction,there is no getting away from this fact,is there?

Answer 7

That is a great point. I guess that if you believed the first you would have to believe the second. It is funny... Everyone would give science the benefit of the doubt, but they aren't so generous with religion.

Answer 8

Not quite accurate, no. To make that statement accurate, someone would have to be claiming that religion caused not the crusades, but somehow caused swords, axes, catapults, etc.

Science has created weapons, no doubt, but has never ordered when or how they would be used.

Answer 9

I'm afraid I can't agree.
All those things were caused by humans.
To blame them on religion or science is to avoid taking responsibility.

Answer 10

Science just provides better more effecient ways of killing as far as wars go. Economics provides the reasons and religions supply the motivations.