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impact our growth? Has religion had positive impacts helping us evolve, or has it been counter-productive forcing us to degrade due to varying degrees of discrimination and unwillingness to work as a unit instead of segregating into separate entities?

Medically we have no impact on our well being, although some will argue that this position is false, due to the impact on religion and medical miracles that can neither be disproved nor proved.

The subject of religion is a widely known sensitive or "hot-button" topic but with anthropology there is specific range of data to be compiled and examined to determine its impact on society and change in humanity. Some will argue that religion hinders our growth and archaic values have been hampering our evolution; while others will state the opposite. So this being said, religion has definitely impacted humanity on both a positive scale and a negative one, but in retrospect it also has varying degrees of change to society as a whole, instead of to individual or separate cultures. Too say Christians have evolved faster than, Catholics, or to say that Buddhists are less subject to medical illness would only be feasible if there was sufficient forensic, physical or other evidence to support this claim.

Honestly religion is a very delicate subject and it is approached very cautiously by anyone in the scientific community. Anthropology is a varying study that definitely crosses boarders when it comes to religion and how it impacts man-kind, but like anything else in life; you have to approach the topic with an open mind, because religion is not a simple subject with factoids or numbers, but instead it is one of faith and passion.

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