[ggekko]

"Goes to show you that the Koran isn't knowledge or a useful skill, rather its akin to worship of the angry moon god."

It is amazing how a group Islamo-philic scholars can miss the truth that is slapping them in the face. From the beginning of Islam the Koran was always considered to be a final and complete revelation to mankind thereby rendering the pursuit of basic scientific knowledge superfluous. The hostility toward capitalism and basic scientific research has been endemic to Islamic societies. I think it would be fair to say that Islam enjoyed a golden age of applied science and technology but largely suppressed fundamental scientific research.

In the Christian west, by contrast, St. Thomas Aquinas establsihed the doctrine of the Bible and book of nature as being twin revelations from God. It is no accident that basic science flourished in the West and stagnated in the Islamic world.

[Cronos]

From the beginning of Islam the Koran was always considered to be a final and complete revelation to mankind thereby rendering the pursuit of basic scientific knowledge superfluous

THe koran also says that the earth is flat -- the Bible doesn't say that, so all true slammies believe that.