TV Science and Islam

Rulke

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Well Islam was responsible for a lot of scientific progress.... hundreds of years ago. So were the greeks but that doesn't make their religion any more valid.
 

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Well Islam was responsible for a lot of scientific progress.... hundreds of years ago. So were the greeks but that doesn't make their religion any more valid.

im sorry WHAT?
 

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im sorry WHAT?

I think he said remember when the main christian church placed Galileo under house arrest up until his death for daring to suggest that the earth wasn't the centre of the universe?
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A religion being valid is so contradiction in itself.
 

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Awesome post chronic, although its a shame it's too late to some extent. Most education systems will probably stick to whoever they currently include in their maths books
 

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Well...at the risk of someone saying i said something else, without religion we wouldn't be here as we are.

War brings technology advancements, fast.
Religion is responsible for many wars.

Ergo...:p

You can't say it's not a valid point :(
 

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which was in turn taken from the china/india
science is a refinement of knowledge, all modern science is "taken" from somewhere
The same way bread isn't "just yeast, milk, flour, butter and salt"
you wouldnt eat them seperately and call it bread would you?

What matters is what is done with it, if you watched the documentary (and used a bit of common sense) you would realise how silly you have just made yourself look :p
 

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science is a refinement of knowledge, all modern science is "taken" from somewhere
The same way bread isn't "just yeast, milk, flour, butter and salt"
you wouldnt eat them seperately and call it bread would you?

What matters is what is done with it, if you watched the documentary (and used a bit of common sense) you would realise how silly you have just made yourself look :p

wtf?:p I was just stating something totally irrelevant

and anyways religion and science usually dont go together. If you noticed most scientific breakthroughs came in the 19th-20th centuries in a much more secular world.
Also many of those were made during wars, so sadly wars usually contribute much more to science :(
 

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Saw an intressting programm about Roman Empire field doctors, was quite intressting, most of the tools they used 2000 years ago looks just like the tools modern doctors use, just reinvented them. Guess when you find a perfect tool for the human body, its just a matter of time before its reinvented if its lost in history.

but what struck me was the stomach wounds they fixed and patients survived. They took a bowl filled with wine, and cleaned the intestines that had spilled out, while checking for damage, if the intestines where hole, they stuffed them back in and stiched the wound shut. All while the patient was sitting up without painkillers able to watch the procedure.
 

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