Is Western Civilization imploding under its own weight?

Last week, there was a demonstration in from of Oxford University. The site for the new animal laboratory where, if all goes fine, there will be a laboratory for testing new drugs on animals. The demonstration was by the Animal Lovers who dont want the tests to happen.

United States survey findings suggest that more than 50% of the people in the US don't believe in the Darwin's theory of Evolution.

George Bush, under the pressure from the leading right conservatives, has stopped funding projects doing research on Stem Cell cultivation which hold the big promises not only for cloning but also to cure to many diseases like Diabetes, kidney failure etc.

The British public has been taking a lot of pride in believing that they are the  most righteous among the human race. But now that conscience is getting in the way of scientific enquiry. The only way they have to keep their domination is this highly competitive world is to keep their lead in technological advancement.

The American public is on the opposite track. They oppose the Stem Cell research as they think that humans would not take over the God's job. And stem cell research is not the only thing. Many of the US citizens are losing interest in science and technology in general. The US scientific research is now more and more dependent on the foreign scientists. Mainly from Asian countries like China and India. However, with the resurgent Asia, this will be helping India and china more than US as the scientist bring back the technical know-how.

And the socialist Europe is more interested in making their lives easy with big pensions and less work. Last year the french workers were on strike to reduce their weekly working hours from 38 hours to 36.

With the native citizens losing interest, how long can Western Countries sustain the lead they have taken over the rest of the world in past 300 years is anybodies guess. Hope they will lose it soon.