Gospels as Manacles

It seems certain that humans would have evolved much faster if at every turn they hadn't been held back by the scamology and hocus-pocus of holy men. By "evolved" I mean having progressed to the stage of accomplishing so many wonderful technical feats, especially in the fields of communication, travel, and medicine. Because people are still so addicted to outright horrors like warfare, genocide, and slavery, in slightly modified forms, where their behavior and tendencies are concerned they have barely progressed at all.

In light of the fight that has recently heated up again, with the long ago discredited concept of "creationism" having been given a recent boost through the use of a new name, "intelligent design," scientists are fortunate that their fields escaped the fetters and the moldiness of books written two thousand years ago and rigidly adhered to ever since. In their guides for behavior most humans haven't been so lucky.