The Scientific Precision of the Qur'an

religion should be at all time low in the west because science is constanly denieing religious claims and people are at least in theory getting more and more educated.. religion is for sheep who are afraid of things they cant understand.. holy bible and quraan are products of human mind intended to manipulate the masses.. that guy on the vid is nothing but a liar promoting his para-science..

Regarding progress, i am talking specifically of academic, technological and quality of life.
These are my measures since we depend on them for our food, medicine, problem solving etc

I would not consider progress in these fields to be regressive by any account.

Regarding culture, we may have a difference of opinion here. I have recently returned from the UAE and i saw a huge commitment there to westernisation regarding retail and entertainment.

I know the UAE is a new country but this is a global shift, which to my knowledge has occured in every arab country to some degree, as well as eastern. Your women wear designer clothes, have their makeup done, you go out to coffee shops, ice rinks, the beach, waterparks, cinemas... I have seen it all. You are enjoying life more doing what we started doing 50+ years ago.

You still have culture, and so do the europeans and americans. What is the issue you have with this?

I dont know which statistics support your claim, since you gave no source.
It is a very difficult issue to call accurately since most polls ask different questions regarding belief, for e.g asking if religion is important (which a gallup poll found to show NO, in the majority of european countries) rather than if people believe in a god. Others do not even distinguish what is meant by god, or higher power, which complicates matters even more.

What i can say for certain is that those declaring themselves atheist has increased more than any other denomination in recent times.
In a wider perspective 200 years ago nearly everybody in the UK and europe was bound to religion by the powers the church had, in this sense non belief is FAR lower than it was.

Im not trying to make claims about tiny 5-10 year fluctuations in belief, such measurements can always be distorted to support a weak conclusion by some group or another.

The UAE... where americans love to go... hahah.. Man ya the UAE looks extremely westernized but dont let that fool you.. they still have their culture there and they still love their families.. And it is well known that the rate of depression in the united states and western countries is much higher than the middle east... unless u want to count Palestine, where almost all the children their want to commit suicide because of oppression..

I was in the UAE, 2 weeks ago. I saw very few english people to arabic. I saw arabs skiing in the mall, i have the pictures on my flickr account of women in head to toe black dress, on the ski slopes with their children.

The malls were packed with arabic people all indulging themselves with things completely alien to your culture of 10 years ago.

Of course they love their familes, we love ours, why do you think we hate each other here? These arent very accurate assumptions im afriad.

When it comes to family values we are morally superior on a number of issues.

-we do not look down on illegitimate children
-we do not disown gay children/family members
-we do not disown family members who leave our religion
-we do not force or pressure our children to marry (pakistan has the highest number of forced marriages worldwide)
-we do not force them to marry people of the same nationality (and i know for a fact this is so in the UAE)
-we do not forbid boys talking to girls

I accept there are bad parents in the UK, some really disgust me when i hear that they tortured a child, raped them etc

These are however the exception and not the rule, i can also point to the muslim familes in the uk who allow honor killing, forced marriage, spousal abuse etc but again i know this is not the norm despite huge concerns over the amount of children taken to pakistan for arranged (forced) marriages. Only a few are lucky to be rescued in these situations.

man... first of all ive been to dubai and abu dhabi many times