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Religious Sentiment as an Excuse for the Decline of Science Education in Bangladesh

The condition of science students in Bangladesh is truly unfortunate. They spend the whole year carrying the “ship of science” on their heads, yet they believe that a single boat once held thousands of species of animals. Even after studying geography in detail, if you ask them whether they believe the earth once flipped upside down during a certain event, they will say, “Why not?” After learning the properties of fire, they will still claim that someone once fell into a fire and the fire suddenly became cool. Even after understanding the difference between living beings and non‑living objects, they will believe that someone’s staff turned into a snake and ran, or that stones could cry out and point toward people of another faith!

After memorizing and exhausting themselves over the classification of plants and animals, ask them what they think about the fact that this classification is based on evolution. They’ll be startled and say, “There’s no such thing as evolution – we just fell from the sky!” Even though mosquitoes can’t enter the human brain, these gentle science students believe someone died because a mosquito entered their head! With basic knowledge of water, air, oceans, and zoology, these clueless individuals will still claim that someone survived inside a fish’s belly for forty days. Despite having a minimal understanding of life, they believe a dead person could bring others back to life. That he could turn a clay bird into a living one. Even with knowledge of gravity, when they hear that a throne and all its courtiers floated through the air from one place to another, they’ll say, “Yes, yes, that’s true.” Ask a science student who knows plant structure whether someone ran into a living tree and disappeared inside it, and he’ll accept it as truth without question.

It’s not just science students – students of other subjects are in even worse condition. Ask a history student whether thousands of messengers arrived to help in a certain war, and he’ll say, “Yes, they came!” But then ask why those messengers didn’t show up in another war, and he’ll fall silent. Even after learning about Mendelian genetics and all aspects of reproductive science, when the cute science student hears that someone was born without their father’s X and Y chromosomes, they’ll accept it without argument. Doesn’t this fool know that if a child is accidentally born without a father, it must be a girl? Because for a girl, only the mother’s X chromosome is sufficient. But for a boy, the father’s Y chromosome is essential.

So, what do we understand from this? These seemingly brilliant students are actually so weak and operate with such laughable levels of sense! Of course, these fools will timidly say, “If He wills, anything is possible.” Fine. If anything is possible by His will, then why study science at all? You could spend the whole year cutting grass for horses. Since you don’t need a spaceship to go to space, just a mythical flying horse is enough! Then what’s the point of all this research?

Science and its practice begin with questions and doubt. Then, through evidence, one must find answers and determine whether the doubt is valid or not. In almost every country in the world, students are taught at the school level that religion and science are separate things – one is based on evidence and acceptance, the other on blind belief. What exactly is religious sentiment? And why does it get hurt?

At this link, you’ll see textbooks used in schools in the world’s most technologically advanced country: https://www.ck12.org. These topics are discussed there, and children learn them. They don’t just question religion—they even question their parents’ mistakes.

Religion and science are fundamentally conflicting subjects. Religious individuals have always obstructed the progress of science. Science doesn’t concern itself with religion. Europe remained in darkness as long as it was under religious control. It only became advanced and civilized once it broke free from religious dominance.