Posted on 12/17/2004 9:42:37 AM PST by bondserv
He did say through. Which is accurate. A slick trick by the muslim apologists...
Quite a trick, since the zero was used by the rest of the scientific world for almost a milenium before anyone else knew that Mayans existed.
But thank you for playing.
Though to who? Not me. I received it from the source. ;^)
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Ummmm, no; no it's not. I won't go into *what it is*, as I'd probably get in trouble... aw, what the heck:
Islam, The Cult of Murder.
Islam, The Cult of Terror.
Islam, The Cult of Boy-Buggering.
Islam, The Cult of Women-Chattelling.
Islam, The Cult of Horror.
Islam, The Cult of Rape.
Islam, The Cult of Ritual Killing.
Islam, The Cult of Beheading.
Islam, The Cult of Deviants.
Islam, The Cult of Hate.
Islam, The Cult of Lies.
Islam, The Cult of Female Mutilation.
Islam, The Cult of Death.
Islam, The Cult of Christian & Jew Killing.
Islam, The Cult of Infidel Murder.
Islam, The Cult of The Mentally-Ill.
Islam, the Cult of Evil.
Islam, the Cult of Poverty.
Islam, the Cult of Illiteracy.
Islam, the Religion of Peace, and THEY'LL KILL YOU TO PROVE IT!
The Islamic world acted as the west's library during the dark ages yet did alomst nothing with that knowledge themselves.
I know some former Muslims who have responded to the Gospel and become Children of God. Many are hungry for the truth. Much of our personal failing lies in the fact that we haven't been persuasive in that area of the world. I believe Bush's main agenda is to change that.
The American people are becoming more fed up with the Liberal influence projecting from our Universities and Hollywood. We must continue to persuade those of the truth, no matter how evil their systems are.
Islam's biggest evil is that it diverts people from the truth by using half truths mixed with outright lies regarding God. Any belief system that is absent the veritably Almighty God of the Old and New Testament's, can only lead to destruction.
Thanks for your comments and I agree evil needs to be despised.
I am hoping one of his children puts together his manuscripts and completes the sequel. I had read that he was working on it when he died.
I'm not sure most people (especially in the West) get the devastation caused by the Mongol's, especially in TransOxonia.
My wife is from Romania (moved to California when she was 7); so I have had the Romanian perspective on the Mongols, from her Dad and Uncles. The Islamic extremists seem to have adopted many of the Mongols methods.
The Qu'ran was written by a hothead reactionary, and was the equivalent in its day of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and Karl Marx's Das Kapital. Like Luddites, the Islamic movement was determined to smash the existing culture and centers of learning, and are at base very anti-intellectual. The Zoroastrianists were driven out, and what few remained in Persia and Mesopotamia expired when the hordes of Genghis Khan swept in out of the east. As is known today, this probably forged for all time the determination of the jihadists of Islam to take no prisoners, the only choice offered is convert or die.
SURE it does!
The science of making explosives---and detonating them.
True. The destruction of the Hordes changed the psyche of Russia, China, Japan and Mesopotamia for ever. Western Europe got off unscathed, but the Caliph of Baghdad got trampled to death by about a thousand horsemen, didn't he?
Beer and wine have been around forever, but it was Islamic chemists who first distilled pure alcohol.
This guy has quite a different view of the Islamic world than I do. What of the final conquest of Constantinople during the same time period. Much of Greek science came from them, not the Arabs. In fact, what Greek science the Arabs got, they got from the conquest of the Roman (Byzantine) empire over the centuries.
"Al cohol", the spirit of life, is itself a word taken for Arabic. Like "al kali" the ashes, the source of potassium, which has the chemical symbol K (from "kalium", the Latin form of the Arabic word).
Oh, yes. We have a slanted picture of the middle ages. But once you read Thorndike, it becomes pretty clear.
Take the water mill. The Romans knew about it, but never did anything with it. During the middle ages, the water mill was used to power all sorts of machinery, including most familiarly to grind flour for bread. If you read Homer, you'll find references to 50 slave women grinding bread in the palace, using mortars and pestles. Basically, the water mill made it possible to gradually do away with slavery in the Christian west.
Until the development of the steam engine, the water mill powered all industrial development in the West. We have a 19th century sawmill across the road from us in Vermont which was powered by a water mill, as just one example. Water mills were used in the middle ages to full cloth, make horseshoe nails, and for all sorts of labor saving purposes.
Interestingly, much of this development took place in Cistercian monasteries. Similarly printing appeared at about the same time as the Reformation, but significantly it appeared in a monastery.
"...The value of zero was first conceived in Ancient India. From there it went to Greece..."
According to "Mathematics for the Millions", the classic historical work by Oxford don Lawrence Hogben, the Greeks knew of the concept of zero, which was a Hindu development, but discounted its logical validity. The Greeks' tremendous mathematical achievements (primarily in Geometry) were thus accomplished using a number system that never included the use of zero in any description or calculation. And the Greeks were the first to use the "stones" in calculating machines. In fact, the term "Calculus" refers to the "stones", as in "hard".
Everything the Arabs claim for themselves was ripped off from the victims of their savagery. Including their bogus claims of scientific contributions.
Arabic for some of it, but Persian for some of the best.
BUMP!
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