Faiths Blocking Scientific Developments

With the development of sciences, the humanity has become more knowledgeable and the process is going on. But religious myths, developed at a time when sciences had not developed in many fields, are in direct confrontation with the scientific knowledge. Today, only 45 percent of Americans believe in truth of evolution. However, Japanese and Europeans have shown a better inclination to scientific evolutionary knowledge with their percentages standing at 78 and 70, respectively.


So much so that the National Science Board, which oversees National Science Foundation in US, has opined that if religious beliefs of people require to discard scientific facts, the board doesn’t think it appropriate to expose the truth.


This is alarming to the scientific community and their work the world over and with some more advancements in the same direction, one day may kill all scientific developments. This is alarming to the people also who, in-spite of their contra-science religious beliefs, are dependent on scientific knowledge for their survival in their present lifestyles, whether it is electricity, medicines, computers, internet, etc or anything else. Thus the faith holders have a dual face on depending on sciences and showing their faith in anti-science religions. This is a clear indicator of where the religions are going to lead us to – a dark age.


Every religion claims to being based on universal knowledge. Yet the religious faith followers have been showing their intolerance to other religions by murderous actions, religious hatred, beheading and bombing people. Comparatively, the Atheists and non-believers rarely condemn individuals rather actions and ideas that deserve to be challenged and they are unanimously condemned by all religious followers. It shows that only the religions are at fault and these are misleading people and are divisive to human society.


Keeping religions immune from criticism, in the name of tolerance to religious faith and hurting feelings of the believers, is both unwarranted and dangerous. Unless we are willing to expose religious irrationalities whenever and wherever these arise, we shall be encouraging irrational orientation of public mind, policy and promote ignorance over education for our next generations.