morphesium
Active Member
For about a thousand years, Science advanced much more in Muslim countries than in Europe, our numbers are Arabic numerals, for God's sake, where do you come up with this nonsense, have you even read about the History of Islam???
Arabic or Indo-Arabic or Hindu-Arabic. It had their origins in Indian Subcontinent. The Muslims - being traders did play a big role in introducing this to other parts of the world.
I do agree that there were great thinkers in the Arabic world, scientists and mathematicians. I had gone through a book ( and a 4-part video series) concerning the history of mathematics and in it talks about the contribution of mathematics by the Arab world (algebra, algorithm etc, ) and I am really thankful to them. I do agree that they too have contributed in sowing the seeds of modern science.
Thanks to the Prophet Mohammad instructions, people were brushing their teeth and washing their ***, regular bathing etc 1400 years ago, Europeans by comparison were barbarians at the time.
For me I do find much of the acts of the said Prophet Mohammad amoral. It was christianity ( religion) that kept Europe in dark ages during the medivial ages. Talk about the sun at the center of the solar system and the priest would say "he is talking against the bible, burn him alive".
But what about now. Now we can say theory of Evolution is right and everybody knows this to be true. People here believe in science rather than religion. Just think of the scientific advancement that were made possible in a mere 100 years. Unfortunately, it seems it is the Muslim world that is in darkages now. ISIS, much of world terrorism, and so on. I believe it is just religion that is crippling your thoughts, that make people from realizing the truth and accepting science.