Have you any evidence that religion or faith has stultified intellectual development in world history?
You are asking for proof of why something undefined has not happened.
That is impossible.
It is intuitive however that whenever questions and answers are pursued on the basis of superstition, which is the basis of faith and religion, such pursuits are at best non-productive and often destructive.
Given the immeasurable number of man years wasted in the history of civilization on these endeavors, it would follow that such activity must have extracted some toll on intellectual development.
"Religions, by whatever names they are called, all resemble each other. No agreement and no reconciliation are possible between these religions and philosophy. Religion imposes on man its faith and its belief whereas philosophy frees him of it totally or in part. … Whenever religion will have the upper hand, it will eliminate philosophy; and the contrary happens when it is philosophy that reigns as sovereign mistress. So long as humanity exists, the struggle will not cease between dogma and free investigation, between religion and philosophy: a desperate struggle in which, I fear, the triumph will not be for free thought, because the masses dislike reason, and its teachings are only understood by some intelligences of the elite, and because, also, science, however beautiful it is, does not completely satisfy humanity, which thirsts for the ideal and which likes to exist in dark and distant regions that the philosophers and scholars can neither perceive nor explore."
Sayyid Jamal al-Din Muhammad b. Safdar al-Afghani
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