Has Religion Slowed Scientific Progress Through History?

Evolution does not equal science. So many of the fundamentals of science came before evolution was even thought of.

Yes, but a science education that doesn't include proper teaching of evolution will be a poor one, partly because evolution is so central to modern science, and partly because anti-evolution thinking lacks the critical rigour of science. The modern teaching of science focuses on the scientific method and how science works, and it wouldn't be possible consistently to teach that and an anti-evolution position, because the latter does not conform to the former.

Similarly, history does not equal twentieth-century history, and there was an awful lot of history before the twentieth century began, but a history education that didn't touch on anything from the twentieth century would be pretty deficient. Or literature doesn't equal Shakespeare, etc., etc.
 
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