Would we be more technologically advanced without religion?

[AeroEngineer3141]

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There’s a graph I’ve seen a few times on the internet about the development of technology over the past few thousand years, it increases at a steady rate until it’s killed by the christian dark ages and then shoots up exponentially in the past two centuries or so.

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<p>How did this graph possibly calculate a reliable y-axis? Also, religion has existed throughout practically all of human history - you can’t determine a correlation between the two. Not to mention that technology has been advancing at different rates at different levels throughout different areas of the world.</p>