Can a religiously guided nation advance in Science?

Can a religiously guided nation advance in science?

It has been a long debate and actually an endless one that tries to understand whether there is a conflict between religion and science or there is none. Before going deeper, we should agree on what is understood as religion and what is understood as science. Science is normally agreed to be the accumulation of observation and studying those observations and by that trying to develop the world. If we look closer, we shall realize that when someone wants to really develop something, his mind should be allowed to think on all levels of observation to come up with a new advancement. Some naïve people who side with religious indoctrination shall argue that computers are something religious people don’t tell you that it is forbidden. Yes, they don’t say that today but they said it before. Actually if we look at how computers have been developed we shall realize that any conserved religious thinker (at least a Muslim one) shall argue that it is not allowed.

One must understand human functionality and be able to study humans and other species and by that try to mimic human behavior by creating something that has the capacity of making sense of sensory information and reaction by giving an output. The very creation of a model is considered forbidden by many Islamic scholars till today. Some people still argue that making some models that mimic natural creation is utterly forbidden and that is the first step of making a machine that responds and reacts.

Coming to the creation of ANN (artificial neural networks) we would realize that most of the pioneers in that realm are neuroscientists and psychologists who openly mimicked the behavior of the nervous system to create such complex artificial intelligence. Creating highly developed intricate computers need you to dissect and understand the nervous system. It is not an amazement to find in a chapter on the human nervous system in many books on computational neural networking which makes the basis of the highly complex machines that measure high statistics and come out with results.

I think that the three big questions are the ones that lead the human mind to be able to unleash its human creativity. Allowing people to dwell freely on the field of neuroscience with no constraints shall allow many deep thinkers to make wonderful connections and come up with new inventions. Allowing people to question nature and try to alter it and mimic it is key to material advancement and the basis of the industrial revolution. Glancing into the skies and trying to understand it gives way to understand the atmosphere and how equilibrium is needed to advance in many fields. When the margin of thought in these three big questions is censored then expect no new pivotal advancement even in the field of sociology.

( These are my conclusions that I reached to after several readings and I do understand that the topic holds deeper intricacy than this)