Atheism is maturing, and it will leave Richard Dawkins behind

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5. Dawkins is a loudmouth, but it's fascinating that...

he gets nailed for this statement.

As usual, if you can't argue with logic, call him a bigot.

It's my understanding that the Four Great Doctors of Islam decided a while back that all questions were answered and there is to be no more exploring of the religion, or anything else. This may have had something to do with the Sunni/Shia split, but I don't know for sure.

About the same time, St. Francis, or one of the other Catholic hotshots at the time, started the ball rolling on how it is possible to question the Church on certain matters and the Church had no business messing with some other matters.

This directly led to the disappearance of the great Arabian and Persian learning and science centers as Islam turned into itself, and the expansion of learning and exploration in the West.

So, yeah, Arabs, who had managed to pretty much take over and civilize Spain, did accomplish a lot back then, but haven't done much lately.

But blaming modern Islam for the lack of scientific leadership smacks of religious bigotry in these times, even if true.