(January 10, 2015 at 9:55 am)robvalue Wrote: There is also a reason why making up an answer is worse than admitting you don't know. If you make one up, and become comfortable with it, you lose the incentive to go and find out the real answer. As well as misleading anyone who relies on you for accurate information.
There may be no real answer yet, but if no one is looking, it won't get found. Hence religion stunting science.
I don't believe religion stunts science. Newton was a Christian.
22% of Nobel Prize winners were Jews. [1] (Even though Jews comprise less than 0.2% of the world's population)
Christians have earned 65.4% of Nobel prizes. [2]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jew..._laureates
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chr..._laureates