Posted on 01/21/2016 6:54:33 AM PST by C19fan
The world’s first scientific renaissance took place not in Italy, but in the Arab world. The period between the 9th and 11th centuries AD, when Islam took hold of a band of territory strategy from Spain in the West through to what is now Pakistan, saw an extraordinary intellectual flowering. Scientists in the Arab world during this period made important advances in fields as varied as astronomy, mathematics, medicine and optics – advances that fed into and stimulated the later European Renaissance. Which makes it all the stranger that modern Islamic nations have such a lamentable record in science. Where did it all go wrong?
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Barack, is that you?
That “intellectual flowering” was the conquest of areas which and Greek and Roman libraries, which they translated and claimed as their own discoveries.
Nobody in the west knew better at that time because of the Catholic Church hoarding and hiding old manuscripts, so everybody just thought the Arabs were brilliant.
http://www.aina.org/books/hgsptta.htm
Nonsense.
Arabic numerals are Arab in origin.
Inbreeding doesn’t help, either.
“Arabic numerals” are Indian in origin.
But they flow left to right....
But they flow left to right....
Actually, they're Indian in origin. They were adopted by Arabs.
Bingo. Mad Mo is a distructor.
At the time the Catholic Church was the only Christian Church... and considering everything was a manuscript, we’re hundreds of years before the printing press after all... it shouldn’t be a surprise that research and literature was protected in order to be preserved.
Imagine... if you’re only copy of the bible was one you personally had to hand copy. How would you treat such a document?
This is very much disputed by historians. Islam appropriated existing knowledge gained from the classical world, particularly Greece, and used it in certain spots for the good of the Empire. Totalitarian regimes can do that - gather known science in one place for a specific purpose - a grand building, a particular military technology. Just look at the Soviet Union. Yes - they created huge bombs and missiles (at great expense and with ideas stolen elsewhere) but society was a wreck.
In his very helpful book, What If Jesus Had Never Been Born, D. James Kennedy gives a list of some of the outstanding Bible-believing scientists who gave the lead in founding the following branches of science. This list is worth repeating:
Antiseptic Surgery Joseph Lister
Bacteriology Louis Pasteur
Calculus Isaac Newton
Celestial Mechanics Johannes Kepler
Chemistry Robert Boyle
Comparative Anatomy Georges Cuvier
Dimensional Analysis Lord Rayleigh
Dynamics Isaac Newton
Electronics John Ambrose Fleming
Electrodynamics James Clerk Maxwell
Electromagnetics Michael Faraday
Energetics Lord Kelvin
Entomology of Living Insects Henri Fabre
Field Theory James Clerk Maxwell
Fluid Mechanics George Stokes
Galactic Astronomy Sir William Hershel
Gas Dynamics Robert Boyle
Genetics Gregor Mendel
Glacial Geology Louis Agassiz
Gynaecology James Simpson
Hydrography Matthew Maury
Hydrostatics Blaise Pascal
Ichthyology Louis Agassiz
Isotopic Chemistry William Ramsey
Model Analysis Lord Rayleigh
Natural History John Ray
Non-Euclidean Geometry Bernard Riemann
Oceanography Matthew Maury
Optical Mineralogy David Brewster
Where did it all go wrong? My bet is on centuries of first-cousin marriages.
“Other than that, what has Christianity EVER done for us?”
When you invade a country that is making tech progress, can you call that progress your own?
The problem wasn’t “hoarding”, it was the collapse of the Western Empire because of statism of the late Empire. The Eastern Empire had the same books and active scholars. As you mentioned, the Arab Muslims simply claimed achievements that weren’t theirs or built on the achievements of the Christian societies that they destroyed. The fading out of the “Golden Age” was just the fading out of the underlying Christian culture of the conquered lands. Muslims create nothing and can make nothing. BTW, the Arab conquerors often burned libraries because, as either the first or second caliph said, if a book is consistent with the Koran it is unnecessary, and if it isn’t it contains nothing of value.
"The period between the 9th and 11th centuries AD, when Islam took hold of a band of territory strategy from Spain in the West through to what is now Pakistan, saw an extraordinary intellectual flowering.
Any extraordinary intellectual flowering that took place within any territory taken hold by Islam within the first two centuries was from pre-existing science and/or any lingering scholarship surviving the ritual elimination of jahiliyya (material destroyed because it did not conform to Islamic precedent) or from the dhimmi or recently reverted populations who maintained remnants of traditional scientific study.
There is little to no existence of proof of such 'scholarship' where none existed before, just as the decimation of the millions of castrated black slaves have no visible legacy remaining in modern day Arabia.
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