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I wish that were true. Once religion, especially fundamentalist religion, gets control, science is in real trouble.

Read Heinlein's "Revolt in 2100".




Read Heinlein's "Revolt in 2100".

Is that intended as a recommendation of a scientific source about long-term trends cross-culturally? I got a big volume of the collected "future history" stories by Robert Heinlein out of the library a year ago, and I was disappointed by how poorly those stories have aged. I also figured out, by rereading Heinlein (a favorite author of mine when I was a kid) that he never informed any of his stories with much perspective from non-Western cultures (although I give him credit for being aware of that kind of issue). Since I spent three years in the 1980s and later another three years spanning the turn of the last century living in a non-Western country, I don't turn to Western science-fiction stories anymore for my social commentary. I like to read real science based on verifiable history to puzzle out social trends. I can recommend a source

http://www.amazon.com/The-Better-Angels-Our-Nature/dp/014312...

and invite other readers here to recommend other sources. I'm not worried about fundamentalist religion "getting control" of science.




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