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To: js1138
Islamic countries contribute almost no original science.

Careful, you're inadvertantly swerving into the fact that the Christian worldview is the basis of modern scientific thinking.

Rise of Early Modern Science

657 posted on 08/21/2008 12:03:21 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: MrB
Careful, you're inadvertently swerving into the fact that the Christian worldview is the basis of modern scientific thinking.

I will certainly accept the possibility that a religion that emphasises submission to the will of God is at a disadvantage when it comes to science. Fortunately, that concept is foreign to Christianity.

On a more serious note, neither religion scores all the points. Scientific thinking originated with the pagan Greeks, was preserved by Muslims, and rediscovered by devout Christians like Galileo and Bruno, who were only too happy to submit to the teachings of the Church. Fortunately the early scientists always put the authority of Genesis over their empirical findings. Otherwise they might have stumbled into heresies like believing the earth moves.

680 posted on 08/21/2008 1:04:42 PM PDT by js1138
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