Apr. 22, 2014, Dennis Prager asked professor Rodney Stark, author of the book How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity: “The Romans at least had a literature. I’m asking about those African, South American, and Meso-American and aboriginal societies that never developed an alphabet?”
Dr. Stark: “A lot of that has to do with geography.
“One of the questions these days you are not supposed to ask is if why when the Europeans went out in the era of discovery, the main thing they discovered was how far ahead they were of the rest of the world. They thought the Chinese would be way ahead and they were way behind.”
“Religion was the ballgame. The Judeo-Christian concept of God held the key to the rise of the West — the belief in a rational Creator God. That had the implication that the Creation was rational, that it obeys rules. Hence humans have the ability to reason, it might be possible to discover the rules of Creation. That was the basis of science. Science only happened in the West.”
