I don't argue that organised religion has held back research in some fields, but the idea that we'd have colonised space by now is pretty laughable. We're at least a century away from that happening in my opinion. We haven't done anything more sophisticated than drive a Tonka toy around Mars as yet, and that's got nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with us not being nearly as smart as we like to think we are. The logical question is: should we even colonise space? We're doing a pretty good job of f-ing this planet over (we're soooo smrt), should we really take the show on the road?
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