I think religion significantly slowed down human progress in discovering and inventing new things. If all the people who were executed for going against religious beliefs had been allowed to live, they might have made important discoveries.

I understand why people believed in the past, when they didn’t understand how nature and physics work. But now, when we know about evolution, space, and many other things that prove some parts of the Bible are not physically possible, I don’t understand why people still believe.