Islamic radicals have brought all forms of chaos and destruction to this beautiful world while at the same time contributing almost nothing to the progress of humanity. . Christains and Jews even atheists have led the world in breakthroughs in all fields of human endeavour be it the sciences, medicine, chemistry, engineering, physics, technology etc with the exception of perhaps islamic studies.. even the Internet Muslims love to use from activities ranging from promoting islam to watching camel po.rn is a product of the non muslim "kaffirs" who Mohammed calls cattle, pigs and apes..

Three of the last four popes have been university professors, including the current one who was professor of philosophical and theological studies at the University of San Miguel in Argentina before rising in the hierarchy. Some popes, like Benedict XVI, Pius XII, Paul VI and John Paul II are known primarily as intellectuals with dazzling linguistic skills. Occasionally, one is elected—like Pope John XXIII—who rises in the ranks primarily as a “pastor” or administrator. But the history of the modern papacy is the history of smart guys who get to wear white elected to office by other smart guys who wear red.
Even if you disagree with their theology, it is hard to fault their training and intelligence. While the ‘new atheism’ has repeatedly proved its historical dumbness in relation to the preservation of culture and book learning, it would be an understatement to say that the Catholic Church has done its share of the heavy lifting.


Now to the Jews. The term ‘rabbi’ has been a mark of distinction since antiquity. Loosely, it means “master” or “teacher” and connotes competence in logic, linguistics, history, and interpretation. (One of the reasons Jesus seems to have caused offense in a synagogue when he presumed to interpret a verse of scripture is that he lacked formal education). Look at the course of study in most Jewish seminaries today and you will see that nothing has been lost of this love of learning. And as with most Christian theological schools, you have to have at least an undergraduate degree (or more) to be admitted to the course in the first place. There is no official hierarchy in Judaism, so there is no equivalent to the pope, but ‘chief rabbis’ tend to be respected teachers and scholars, whether they are occupying positions in Rome, London, Jerusalem, or Montreal.

Since the Nobel prize was first awarded in 1901 approximately 193 of the 855 honorees have been Jewish (22% of all winners). Jews make up less than 0.2% of the global population. that's right, one fifth of one percent.Overall, Jews have won a total of 41% of all the Nobel Prizes in economics, 28% of medicine, 26% of Physics, 19% of Chemistry, 13% of Literature and 9% of all peace awards. Maybe that is what God meant by chosen people.
65.4 % of Nobel Prizes Laureates, have identified with Christianity Overall, Christians have won a total of 78.3% of all the Nobel Prizes in Peace, i wonder why?.

Also Bare in mind when compared with the numbers for jews and adjusted for laureate per religious affiliation, christains still have a lot to do to come close to the Jews.

Islam is the second largest religion in the world, with 1.5 billion Muslims and 10 percent of that number blood thirsty devout Muslim jihadists. so far Muslims have produced only 11 Nobel Prize winners... 7 for peace. this is so tiny a number that it is almost unbelievable. .the latest Muslim was malala who won the Nobel peace prize after getting shot in the head by devout Muslims.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim_Nobel_laureates

Which brings me to the unpleasant thesis sentence of this little screed. Islam is illiterate. Its teachers are illiterate. Its educational system, to the extent it calls itself Islamic, is impoverished. Not particularly in its faithful, who have constructed some good (if not prestigious or world-ranked) universities and produced some excellent scholars and a vast array of professionals in the last century—mainly by availing themselves of western education and training.
But at its core–in its clergy. It is clear to almost anyone who looks at the imams and mullahs of Islam that the only comparison between Islam and the West relative to theology would have to be made between the worst graduates of fundamentalist Bible colleges in America and the best graduates of Islamic seminaries–anywhere.


Now let us see how Islam affects on the human brain:

Almost 60% of muslims are illiterate (Christians about 22%) despite the muslim and christain population being 1.5 and 2.6 billion respectively.
https://themuslimissue./2012/10/20/islamabad-freelance-columnist-800-million-muslims-out-of-1-4-billion-are-illiterate/

That means that majority of muslims are unable to read and study Quran and Hadith alone, but they are very eager when they need to kill people for apostasy and blasphemy.

One more evidence that Islam is problem, arab christians are the best in education in Israel, Arab muslims the worst.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4323529,00.html
One people, two relgions -> two minds.

For example There were few schools there were few schools in pre independence Nigeria because the Muslims rejected western British schools as haram and unislamic.. the folks in northern Nigeria preferred almagiri schools and madarassas... that taught just the quran , islam and Mohammed. ..
Some liberal Muslims however sent their kids to school. . And those northerners turned out as brilliant leaders eg T. balewa.. a very eloquent man. ..etc... but the majority of Northern Muslims choose to remain victims of Islam...

Taha Hussein, egyptian intellectual, saw how Islam bad influence on Egypt and its people and that they will progres only if they return to pre-islamic roots. Even the current Egyptian president have made similar comments.

For people like me–who know the past and present of Islam pretty well–the only reasonable question is, Where is your revolution, your Reformation? Your wars are everywhere, Death is everywhere. But where is change?

True, of course, there are exceptions; but the education of Islamic clerics is a one-book-and-its-friends curriculum. It is a one-language course of study that is unfriendly to philosophy, secularism, the West, the liberal arts– especially serious historical study–most science, and worst of all the two hundred year period–sometimes called the “Islamic Enlightenment”–when Islam actually forged ahead of the West (albeit with the help of a lot of Arab-Jewish teachers like Maimonides) in learning. The West and the Crusades didn’t torch and destroy this culture—they appropriated it, expanded and developed it. Modern Islamic teachers barely refer to it. Many have not heard of it.

Everything these clerics oppose—from freedom of conscience to freedom of marriage to educational equality for women–is rooted in a civilization that a now dead Islamic civilization tried to bury in the eleventh century. Wars, caliphs, ambition, and eventually desuetude combined to defeat it.

This stunning decline in clerical literacy has reached a crisis point in some countries like Kyrgyzstan where the number of trained mosque minders is steadily decreasing, and a few serious scholars now worry that misinterpretations of Islam could lead to an increase in the number of religious radicals. Yet when pressed to explain what this crisis might mean in real terms, tropes replace reasons.

The religious councils crack their knuckles over “false” or “mistaken” interpretations of Islam that drive Islamic radicalism, but the
finger is always pointed–the trouble always comes–from the mosque next door, the imam down the road.

The illitericisation of Islam among the imams in favour of simple (Persian?) black and white dualisms (good and evil, Muslim/infidel) is an appealing worldview to young, restless, uneducated men who need to be right about and feel validated by something It corresponds to more immediate and material dualisms, like rich and poor. Afghanistan, Pakistan, and much of North Africa—including, increasingly, countries like Sudan, Nigeria and Somalia–depend on the ignorance of the faithful to provide the religious bond among tribes, and the agency of the illiterate, authoritative imam to fuel their prejudices.

There is no need for an al Qaeda to ensure the dominance of this model of Islam. It thrives on intellectual laziness, poverty, lack of opportunity, and a sense of being cut off from a world it suspects of being dark and satanic.

Islam needs to stop deceiving itself that rabid rabbis and crazy Christians can be put forward as the moral equivalent (let alone some sort of weird justification) for the constant stream of bloodshed that covers the earth in the Islamic world, Muslim to Muslim. To be direct, the Jewish and Christian outliers are statistically insignificant. But the swelling numbers of illiterate and extreme MuslimThe educational standard of the Islamic world in general is a scandal, a joke, a laboratory culture for unhappy young men and compliant young women who would prefer to blame the rest of the world for problems they cannot solve because the self-referential myopia of their religion is not designed to solve them. The illiteracy problem in Islam is first Islam itself, not the West, not infidelity, modernity or secularism, and second those who defend its cure as Unislamic. clergy is typical. A simple fact check tells the whole story: According to the NCTC, between 82% and 97% of deaths owing to religious violence in 2011–the last year for which secure statistics were available-were Muslims killing Muslims.

The educational standard of the Islamic world in general is a scandal, a joke, a laboratory culture for unhappy young men and compliant young women who would prefer to blame the rest of the world for problems they cannot solve because the self-referential myopia of their religion is not designed to solve them. The illiteracy problem in Islam is first Islam itself, not the West, not infidelity, modernity or secularism, and second those who defend its cure as Unislamic.

Too long

Tell you what? Your post was too lengthy but factual with statistics.

NO! Religion impacts or rather reflect in the life of an individual oblivious to progress,Progress could happen as a result of some other factors such as the environment,socio economic factor or even race/ethnicity. Religion and progress can't be linked because both could be differently studied as an era e.g RELIGION (20th century medieval era) and PROGRESS (21st century post modernism era),Now the focal point here is to be "evolved",you could say the christians evolve faster than other religion practice/dogma and others at a slower pace.

This is so because christianity is the most populous religion worldwide with the most in group or intricate web of other practices like the catholics,anglicans,protestants,Jehovah Witness etc to collective form what is termed Christianity and with that said,The competition amongst them is what make christianity evolve faster over other religion and that is what you perceive to be PROGRESS.

Not to write so lengthy like you did,I think intelligence is not a factor to be link with religion but rather intelligence is linked with the atheists,skeptics and agnostics outside the matrix.

OREMUSSANCTUS this OP needs chilled camel piss and thick 'ogi'

where in the bible are the 'science'/'inventions' na @parisbookaddict