While scientists are still looking for means to study the "Firefox x2" civilization, some cosmic sociologists have put forward an extremely bold conjecture: those gods in religions that appeared during the ignorance of human civilization, such as God, Allah, Buddha, etc., are all intelligent individuals of alien civilizations, and religion itself is a means for alien civilization to intervene and study human civilization, and even a tool to curb the development of human civilization.

This inference is extremely bold and imaginative.

More importantly, this is likely to be the truth.

In order to find out the truth, cosmic sociologists searched through religious materials of human civilization during the ignorant period and finally believed that their conjecture was correct.

The reason is very simple. The biggest impact of religion is to curb technological progress or imprison human thoughts.

As for Western Christianity, for nearly two thousand years, it has been curbing scientific ideas and almost nipping the scientific spirit of mankind in the cradle.

More importantly, the religions of various ethnic groups were born almost at the same time during the ignorance.

For example, Western Christianity was born around the first year of AD, and Buddhism originated from ancient India and Eastern Taoism were also born during this period. Only Islam was born later, but God was also the one who believed in Islam.

In addition, there is an extremely important factor.

This is, the period when all religions were born was almost in the early stages of the farming civilization of the nation. The religions before this had original colors and could be regarded as a blind worship of unknown things in nature by humans without their intelligence being developed. After that, no influential religions appeared, and even some religious beliefs were regarded as paganisms.

Obviously, if religion arises naturally, there will be no such many coincidences.

You should know that these two characteristics are applicable to all religions that emerged during the period of human ignorance, and any religion meets at least one of them.

Then, cosmic sociologists decided to do something more meaningful.

This is, using supercomputers to simulate and evolve human civilization before the birth of the three major religions, especially the most powerful nations in human beings at that time.

The conclusion given by computers is amazing: religion has delayed human civilization for at least thousands of years!

According to the calculation results given by the computer, if there is no religion, Eastern civilization could enter the industrial age around 500 AD and the cosmic era around 1,000 AD. In addition, Western civilization and Ganges civilization could also enter the cosmic era at almost the same period. If the three calculation results are combined, a more astonishing conclusion can be drawn, that is, Eastern civilization (i.e. ancient China), Mediterranean civilization (i.e. ancient Rome) and Ganges civilization (i.e. ancient India) will encounter in the industrial era. The subsequent violent competition among the three major civilizations will allow humans to enter the cosmic era around 800 AD.

In other words, the process of human civilization has been delayed for 1,500 years!

As a result, cosmic sociologists have given an extremely astonishing conclusion: alien civilizations have visited the earth long ago and discovered the huge development potential of human civilization. For some reason, for example, the exploration spacecraft that visited the earth first does not have the ability to destroy human civilization, or for some other reason, alien civilizations did not destroy human civilization, but instead curbed the development of human civilization through intervention, that is, religion, and delayed the evolution of human civilization by 1,500 years. Alien civilization did this to eliminate human civilization in the future.

The question is, is 1,500 years enough?

Even if human civilization accidentally masters gravity field technology or even accidentally masters nuclear energy, all the impact on civilization evolution is included, the effect of alien civilization intervention methods on the evolution of human civilization will be delayed by about two to three thousand years.

From this we can infer that this alien civilization is between two thousand and three thousand light years away from the solar system.

Obviously, this inference is not valid, because humans have basically explored all galaxies within three thousand light years. Except for the "Star Enemy" civilization that has been destroyed by humans, they have not discovered a civilization capable of visiting the solar system thousands of years ago, and they have not even discovered a second cosmic civilization.

If that alien civilization is farther away, then religious intervention is worthless.

Of course, the basis of this speculation does not exist at all. The reason is very simple. If a cosmic civilization can expand its exploration scope to three thousand light years, then it will definitely encounter other cosmic civilizations when it expands, and it will be impossible to carelessly allow the exploration spacecraft to not carry weapons to destroy galaxies. In other words, if this civilization was three thousand light years away, it would have destroyed human civilization thousands of years ago.

However, the best way to overturn the views of cosmic sociologists is to conduct a similar experiment.

The experimental subject is the "Firefox x2" civilization.

That's why, when the development of the Firefox x galaxy was carried out to the tenth Earth year, explorers were ordered to play God.

Of course, the explorer did not take any risk of contacting the "Firefox x2" civilization.

At that time, eliminating contact with low-level civilizations was the second principle for adventure activities and even aerospace activities, because as long as contact occurs, it is very likely to cause technical leaks, allowing low-level civilizations to master advanced technologies, thus posing a fatal threat to human civilization.

Of course, the "contact" mentioned here only refers to direct contact, not indirect contact.

The so-called indirect contact is to use various technological means to communicate with low-level civilizations, and explorers must not take risks in biological contact.

After being prepared, the first "religious intervention experiment" in human history began.

The experiment method is to create some so-called "miracles" in a way that the "Firefox x2" civilization cannot understand at this stage, and then let a virtual image descend on the "Firefox x2" planet, so that the "Firefox x2" civilization worship it and treat it as a god-like worship. Of course, since it is a religion, the doctrine must be spread. Most of the doctrines adopted at that time came from Christianity, but some modifications were made, mainly to reduce the influence of religion, to see how much time the "Firefox x2" civilization will take to break through the religious confinement and bring scientific development back to normal track, thereby advancing towards the cosmic civilization.

There is no doubt that as an experimental subject, the ending of the "Firefox x2" civilization must be extremely tragic.

You should know that with human habitual means, as long as the experiment is over, the experimental subject will be destroyed and no future problems will be left behind.

This is a very important experiment for human civilization.

In a sense, this is also the first religious social science experiment conducted by human civilization on the cosmic level.

In fact, this experiment shows that while human civilization attaches importance to natural science, it also begins to attach importance to social science, and recognizes the importance of social science in the process of survival and development. For humans themselves, this is a great opportunity to solve historical mysteries.

The experiment lasted for five hundred years, and the conclusion surprised the sociologists of the universe.

There is no doubt that religion is indeed a shackle that imprisons scientific ideas. In the period when religion had a continuous impact, the scientific and technological level of the "Firefox x2" civilization was almost in place and had almost no development in the first 450 years. However, when religion was questioned, it was broken by some individuals in the civilization, and eventually made the entire civilization begin to question, it no longer played a role in imprisoning scientific development, but vigorously promoted scientific development. To put it simply, after the "Firefox x2" civilization broke through the religious shackles set by mankind, the progress made by science and technology in fifty years was greater than the progress made in more than 400 years before this.

Obviously, after breaking through the shackles of religion, the "Firefox x2" civilization entered the era of technological explosion.

Technically speaking, this civilization has evolved into an accelerated type of civilization, that is, technological progress is getting faster and faster.

According to the re-projection, the time when the "Firefox x2" civilization entered the cosmic era was shortened from the previous predictions to less than two thousand years.

So, is religion confining civilization or promoting the development of civilization?

Before the sociologists of the universe gave the answer, the human government of the universe took action, hitting the "Firefox x2" planet with an asteroid with a diameter of about 100 kilometers, completely destroying the civilization on the planet. However, this time, humans were not too extreme, at least not killing them all, but left about 10,000 intelligent individuals, and then brought them back to the solar system by the spacecraft and imprisoned them in a specially set prison. This was mainly a request from the sociologists of the universe, namely, to study civilized individuals.

Perhaps, individual differences are the main reasons for the evolution of civilization.

Unfortunately, the final research results once again disappointed the sociologists of the universe.

The intelligent individual of the "Firefox x2" civilization is a typical carbon-based life. In addition to being unable to maintain a constant body temperature, it has no substantial difference from humans in other aspects. The composition of the brain is almost the same, that is, the civilization is almost exactly the same as humans in individuals.

Of course, this only refers to the essence, not the external manifestation of the situation.

To put it simply, if religious interventions that occurred in the "Firefox x2" civilization also occurred in humans in ignorant times, the result would be completely the same.

Through this experiment, the final conclusion was that during religious intervention, technology was imprisoned, and after civilization broke through the shackles of religion, technology would enter an era of explosion, and civilization is likely to enter a golden period of accelerated development of technology.

So, is the inference of cosmic sociologists still correct?

To put it simply, are those religions that appeared in the period of human ignorance, especially those with world influence, indeed are the means used by alien civilizations to confine human science and technology development? If not, then is religion born naturally? If the answer is still no, then is the alien civilization that interferes with the process of human civilization imprisoning humans or helping humans?
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