Posted on 07/29/2005 8:27:11 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
...Thus when [the American Association for the Advancement of Science] publishes a politically correct history of the relationship between science and Islam... its falsehoods enter credulous and influential minds on every continent, including Antarctica.
“Science in the Arab World: Vision of Glories Beyond” by Wasim Maziak in the June 3, 2005, issue of Science, cites as its sole source for Islamic history “the historian James Burke.”...One can easily and quickly verify that Mr. Burke is no historian...
To elevate Islam, Maziak even caricatures medieval Christianity. in Science of medieval Christianity: Avicenna “introduced medieval Europe to the principles of logic and their use to gain knowledge and understanding of the universe”; and Averroes “reintroduced to medieval Europe the Aristotelian approach to studying nature by observation and reasoning.” >/i>
The caption of a picture of Avicenna in the article in Science says that he helped bring about the Renaissance by
“advocating the use of reason and logic as the way to gain knowledge.”
If this means that Avicenna believed that reason and logic were the way to gain knowledge, he was not a Muslim. If he believed that they were a way to knowledge, with whom was he arguing?
To whom was it necessary to advocate the use of reason and logic? All of the vast resources of the American Association for the Advancement of Science will not suffice to answer that question. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men cannot find a medieval Christian scholar who denied “the principles of logic and their use to gain knowledge and understanding of the universe” or the study of “nature by observation and reasoning.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
So what have Arabs been inventing and discovering since the 14th century????
File under dhimmitude. Or dim wits.
Didn't Arab Scholars direct NASA on the Moon Shot?
Avicenna tried to introduce the scientific method into Islam and his work was vigorously attacked and suppressed. his works were destroyed and are available today only in Latin translations made by Christian monks.
Albert the Great introduced the scientific method into Christianity and he was lauded as an intellectual giant, given a chair at the largest and most prestigious school in Christendom, made the head of one of the most prominent religious orders in the Church and revered as a holy man after his death.
Moses Maimonides did the same thing for Judaism and became one of the most respected sages during his lifetime and after his death, and was made the unofficial leader of the jews in their interaction with the Sultan. Maimonides had (and still has) Jewish critics - but his works were never suppressed by his own community.
This is because TRUTH, LOGIC and REASON fly in the face of Islam.
You must have missed their Industrial Revolution where they invented sand.
Oh yes, wasn't it Islam that
- pioneered navigation leading to the Age of Exploration?
- developed the methods enabling the Industrial revolution?
- led the way in medical breakthroughs, virtually eradicating polio, developing antibiotics, and vaccines?
- and is now leading the way into the Information Age?
That wasn't Islam? Of course, if you want to know how to hack a head off or wire yourself for detonation or perform a clitorectomy, then Islam has that knowledge down to a science!
Uhhhhh......Danny Thomas?
Everything that Islam supposedly invented they stole from India. For instance, architecture, "Arabic" numerals (from Sanskrit), all arithematic and geometry, Unnani medicine (from Ayurveda) and on and on. All originated in India. They started invading India not too long after Mohammed's death and commited mass slaughter on a huge scale, forced "conversions", mass destruction of temples, palaces, forts and other public buildings or defaced them and converted them to Muslim use (like the Taj Mahal - originally a Hindu temple complex), raped, razed villages, enslaved artisans and others to work for them in other countries, and so on.
This crap was already going on back in the late '70's. It's part of the anti-Christian education in American colleges.
Murder/suicide bomb belts.
Genocide - mass murder
Hindu Kush.
Didn't Arab Scholars direct NASA on the Moon Shot?
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No, but they are developing credentials with explosives! (except for the amateurs in London)...
Bump!
(Now, let's see who replies and states the obvious, and who replies and is really mad)....
Um, the Golden Age of Islam actually was extremely enlightened.
Last time I checked, there is nothing PC about the truth.
It was the Muslims in Spain who gave the Europeans much technology. It was the Muslims who rediscovered Greek discoveries long before the Europeans later "discovered" them again after the RCC left the West in the dark ages.
Now, obviously things began to change with Ghazali. He closed the doors to itjihad, which is changing your ways of thinking. So, Muslims began to get stuck in a rut and sects later developed that even rejected innovation, one of which OBL belongs to himself. Caliphs and religious leaders began to turn away from new technology in both war and other matters. The Ottoman Empire is a good example of this.
Europeans began to wake up and soon would take over the Muslims, who were all pretty much stagnant by the 16th century.
But, they owe an incredible amount of debt to the early Muslims, who did lead an incredible empire of intelligence, science, and technology.
Thankfully, this does not characterize most Muslims today.
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