Thats exactly what I said in the above post.......

And yeah.. Your right.. But look at cultures such as the chinese.. They were very much on a path to try discover themselves through religion. However they still managed to progress to the point where they had grand armies and were able to fight off attacking forces..

Its not that races were trying to find god and couldnt progress.. Its that they never had to war with cultures other than their own that were more technologically advanced than them.. Therefore they never felt the need to study the scientific elements of the world around them and subsiquently they were conquored by races that had been doing that for the last 5000 years and beyond...