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Originally Posted by Mad Mel
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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An interesting read about colonizing other planets:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...ier_redux.html
Basically, we only have our solar system to choose from in the near and far future, and I can't see any type of large scale colonization with terra-forming being able to take place until well over 100 years. Believing we could have colonized other planets by now if not for religion is a ridiculous belief. Who's to say, if not for religion, would we even be bothering to look at the stars? Staring off into space and forming astronomical thoughts as part of myth was one of the earliest practices of religion the world over.