TO THE RAMPARTS All of us know of the great benefits that science
(including engineering and medicine) has bestowed upon us, both at
work and in the home. Refrigerators, air conditioners, automobiles,
computers, smart phones, prosthetic appliances, inoculation against
diseases, etc. Many, however, are not aware of the battles that
religion has waged against scientific developments for hundreds of
years. Many books cover different aspects of this subject.
Christopher Hitchens argues that the battle of religion against
science helped turn him to atheism. Charles Kimball, a Baptist
Minister and a university Professor of Religious Studies, in his
book "When Religion becomes Evil," claims that "More wars have been
waged, more people killed and these days more evil perpetrated in
the name of religion than by any other force in human history."
This book concentrates on the ignorance and stupidity of Priests,
Ministers, Rabbis and Muslim Clerics in opposing scientific and
medical progress. Would you believe that religious groups opposed
the lightning rod when Ben Franklin discovered it? Churches, with
their high spires, were the main victims of fires started by
lightning, but the Churches waited more than 15 years before
starting to install these simple, inexpensive protective devices.
Does the Earth rotate around the Sun? Not according to the strict
early teaching s of Catholic and Protestant churches. Stem cell
research, with its tremendous possibilities for improved medical
health, originated in the United States, but religious groups have
stopped us from reaping the likely tremendous medical benefits, not
to mention the huge financial rewards that pursuing this research
could have provided. There is little likelihood that TO THE
RAMPARTS will convince fundamentalist Christians or deeply devout
practitioners of other faiths to back off their anti-science
attitudes, but I do sincerely hope that there are hundreds of
thousands of reasonable readers with open minds that only require a
little educational nudge.
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