how many years do you believe religion has set us back scientifically?

Question

The only advancement I know about is Mendel (1822) who was a friar and the father of modern genetics.

Answer 1

Article: Fighting the wrong battle

"Yet there is another side to the coin — religion has often provided the motivation for pursuing science. Newton and Faraday were two of the many eminent scientists who turned to science to better understand God. They saw no conflict between God's two books — Nature and Revelation."

"Religion has also traditionally provided people with communities, with social values and with emotional warmth — aspects of human experience that science cannot offer."

"Taking cheap and uninformed swipes at religion is hardly the best strategy to adopt when trying to encourage people to take science seriously and become better informed about its methods and content."

"Those who articulate the conflict between science and religion have set the terms of engagement and have forced many religious people into adopting questionable ways of integrating the two domains. Thus we find religious scientists undergoing contortions trying to bridge science and religion through concepts such as indeterminacy in quantum theory. Whatever their validity, such intellectualized responses also fail to tackle many of the most important topics at the science–religion interface, such as the ways in which the values of different faiths lead their members to understand Western science, technology and medicine or, more specifically, how they respond to both physical and mental illness."

Answer 2

Religion didn't, people did. God did not intend for all this confusion, it was just their interpretation. As far as setting you back, this is all gong the way we chose it. Scientifically, you are not ever there yet. We are like ants in the universe, the brains of ants......think about it... our intelligence about universe, etc., is so limited, it is not funny, and we do not have the capability to answer all the questions either., and probably never will. Just because we can go out into space, so what, time travel, now, that gets my attention.

Answer 3

Well, the Library at Alexandria being burned till the Renaissance. About 1500 years.

Answer 4

No longer than scientists and doctors so entrenched they refuse anything new. How many died because surgeons refused to wash their hands? How many could not accept the earth was round?

Still, don't confuse false religion with God. False religion is at fault for the many centuries of ignorance, not God. God set physics and all the science's rules in place. Man denied this for so long. So the fault is with us, not God.

Answer 5

Certain religions have been a source for the slowing of scientific development.

Answer 6

I'd guess around 10,000 years. I have often wondered how much farther advanced humanity would be by now had it not been for religious idiocy. We'd probably have Mars all terraformed by now, thriving colonies, all that.

Answer 7

If it wasn't religion, it was the civil governments that did the same.

And lets not forget the pseudo-scientists who are at work even today, taking us down paths that are politically lined.

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Answer 8

Religion didn't set us back scientifically, people who believe what they do so strongly that they refuse to see anything else has.

Answer 9

Don't forget the most useful contribution religion has given us: BEER!!! And for that, I forgive them for the dark ages.

Answer 10

Religion is not GOD. God created Science.