11. You ARE permitted to answer a question directed at another person IF AND ONLY IF
the question asks about your religion and denomination
Given the "reader of esoteric texts" nature of my signup in this thread and the very general nature of the followingquestion, I think I qualify to answer it under the above.
Why doesn't religion ever bring humanity forward?
Where is it in any religious text if P equals nP?
There do exist examples of what you're asking for, but you generally have to look outside of Abrahamic religious texts to find them. There are hindu texts, for example,that generally encourage humanity to explore technology, harness lightning, build airships, etc. and contain descriptions of gravity, the solar system, atoms, etc.
A few examples:
Yajur Veda(Yajur-veda 6.21)
"Through astronomy, geography, and geology, go thou to all the different countries of the world under the sun. Mayest thou attain through good preaching to statesmanship and artisanship, through medical science obtain knowledge of all medicinal plants, through hydrostatics learn the different uses of water, through electricity understand the working of ever lustrous lightening. Carry out my instructions willingly." (Yajur Veda, 10.19)
"O royal skilled engineer, construct sea-boats, propelled on water by our experts, and airplanes, moving and flying upward, after the clouds that reside in the mid-region, that fly as the boats move on the sea, that fly high over and below the watery clouds. Be thou, thereby, prosperous in this world created by the Omnipresent God, and flier in both air and lightening."Aitareya Brahmana(Aitareya Brahmana 3.44)
"“The Sun does never set nor rise. When people think the Sun is setting it is not so. For after having arrived at the end of the day it makes itself produce two opposite effects, making night to what is below and day to what is on the other side. Having reached the end of the night, it makes itself produce two opposite effects, making day to what is below and night to what is on the other side. In fact, the Sun never sets.”means to cure the sick?
how to preserve meat for the winter.
There are
lots of instructions for this sort of thing in a wide variety of religious texts. Jewish texts, for example, contain a massive list of rules concerning hygiene, food preparataion, human waste disposal and sanitation in general. The koran forbids muslims from eating pork and carrion because it's "
unclean". A large portion of the kama sutra, which most people seem to think is just a list of sex positions, actually has to do with sanitation and how to avoid disease.
A lot of modern science, especially chemistry, astronomy and medicine all have roots in religion.