> Ironically simplifying it like you just did is one of the contributors to the diminished reverence for science in that part of the world. No, that was religi

> Ironically simplifying it like you just did is one of the contributors to the diminished reverence for science in that part of the world. No, that was religion (or one particular religion) and its adherents. Remove the religion and the simplification ceases to be a factor, hence the simplification isn't really a factor, only what is necessary gets to be called a cause.