Sigh. No its going backward because the western world is as stupid as it ever was and everyone has forgotten the lessons of western philosophy. Which was largely a Judaeo-Christian run discipline up till around Kant.
Where do you find these straw men?
What I was saying was that science and the Western world was based on a Christian view of things, was later developed as an anti-Christian thing, and owes nothing whatsoever to Islam except a bit of mathematics.
Today we have in the West three profoundly anti-scientific movements, allied together. Greens, Socialist/Marxists and religious fundamentalists, of whom Islam is probably the most damaging.
And worse still, we have scientists who espouse non-science and think that science can 'prove' atheism, which is as mistaken as Newtons attempt to 'prove' God, scientifically.
I suspect the real problem is that too many people confuse spending 16 years in various schools and colleges with actually acquiring an education, and confuse learning 'facts' with learning how to think.
But that's socialism for you.