And similar changes will need to sweep the Islamic world before it can grow -- economically, technically or otherwise.
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I argued the same thing in my poorly written dissertation, https://utdr.utoledo.edu/theses-dissertations/1194/ …. In a nutshell, I argued that the Portuguese economy was retarded by rigid religious and social structures--both intertwined, structures that were giving way in the places like England.
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This is one heck of a correlation. "Tolerance for individual rights predicts economic growth". Has
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That's good news. I like his photographs too. It's Pinker's psychology that has me wondering.
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1. Cape Cod. 2. Sally Satel. (How conservative ideology can contaminate any science)
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Only with the erosion of the dominance of the Christian eschatological interpretation of time and the great chain of being conception of space did the discoveries of astronomy, mechanics, and chemistry change human knowledge.
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Huh, somebody’s gotta explain that to Trump! Good luck with that!
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Yeah, doubt it
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As Max Weber noted in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
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Steven. We MUST have a talk. If you concider this study as vindicating evidence, then I bet you do believe in the tooth fairy after all.
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Because of WWI.
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Even a dilettante’s appreciation of the history of scientific discover from the 18th century on would lead one to the conclusion the decline of Christian scholasticism lead to discoveries such as the true nature of light, electricity, and magnetism by Faraday, Ampere, Maxwell . .
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Tell that to China.
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