Human Survival

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It's actually not true that religion was this great oppressor of science like so many atheists make it out to be. Truth is the relationship between religion and science was more complex. The first universities were maintained by the Church, derived from schools that were open and running in cathedrals around Europe. Religious institutions encouraged scientific and philosophical investigation after the fall of Rome and even some of the first scientists were priests such as Roger Bacon and Robert Grosseteste, who was a master of science and mathematics and one of the great thinkers of his time. The old thinking that religion is responsible for us not having a cure for mortality is just that; old thinking that needs to be discarded. Credit where it is due, religion has actually played a large role in science over the past thousand years.