RE: The benefits of Xtianity
March 1, 2012 at 9:57 am
(This post was last modified: March 1, 2012 at 9:58 am by The Grand Nudger.)
While I appreciate the graph, the people who cobbled it together seemed to have completely omitted our second "green revolution" (the first being 10k years ago, or thereabouts). Advances in agriculture during the middle ages were nothing less than scientific breakthroughs, responsible for a population explosion that had not been seen in our species before that time. There were also the Arab states, where science and medicine plugged along just fine, and this is only one example of the many places worldwide where knowledge continued it's inexorable march. As long as there are human beings, there will be curiosity, little more is required to facilitate discovery. I think I'm going to allow Europe to enter a plea of temporary insanity on this one.
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