...
Here's how the Nature article summed up the situation in the Middle East,
for instance: "The region is, for the most part, a scientific desert. In
some states, oil wealth has allowed the construction of fabulous cities,
magnificent mosques and sumptuous shopping malls. But little scientific
infrastructure has emerged. Collectively, the Arab nations spend only 0.15
per cent of their gross domestic product on research and development, well
below the world average of 1.4 per cent." Muslims account for 20 percent of
the world's population, but less than one percent of its scientists.
Scientists in Islamic countries now make barely 0.1 percent of the world's
original research discoveries each year.
...
Universities were an Islamic invention later adopted in Europe, but Muslim
universities did not shelter and preserve scientific knowledge during wars
and other upheavals. Christian warriors carved up the Islamic empire and cut
off contact between great scientific centers. Here in Spain, the Catholic
reconquest of Ferdinand and Isabella deprived Islamic science of the great
libraries and schools in Cordoba, Seville and Toledo.
...
Several scholars said one problem is the lack of awareness among Arabs and
Muslims about their own scientific heritage. "Muslims generally are unaware
that their civilization had a high point of superiority in nearly every
aspect," [Glen M. Cooper, a professor of the history of science and Islam at
Brigham Young University] said. "Their current challenge is to face the fact
that the Islamic edge has been completely lost. "It would be a hard thing, I
think, to be part of a religion and culture with such a glorious history as
that of Islam, when that glory is all in the distant past, and an
essentially godless civilization -- from their perspective -- enjoys the
lead in power and science."
MORE:
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/079086.htm
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Really? When was that?
> There were so far advanced of Europe that anyone
> at the time would have laughed at the idea that something like the current
> state of affairs would develop: Islamic nations barely producing anything of
> medical or scientific merit while Europe and America have become the centers
> of progress.
Europe has merely reclaimed its classical Greek and Roman heritage.
> ...
>
> Here's how the Nature article summed up the situation in the Middle East,
> for instance: "The region is, for the most part, a scientific desert. In
> some states, oil wealth has allowed the construction of fabulous cities,
> magnificent mosques and sumptuous shopping malls. But little scientific
> infrastructure has emerged. Collectively, the Arab nations spend only 0.15
> per cent of their gross domestic product on research and development, well
> below the world average of 1.4 per cent." Muslims account for 20 percent of
> the world's population, but less than one percent of its scientists.
> Scientists in Islamic countries now make barely 0.1 percent of the world's
> original research discoveries each year.
>
> ...
>
> Universities were an Islamic invention later adopted in Europe,
Actually, the ancient Greeks invented them.
> but Muslim
> universities did not shelter and preserve scientific knowledge during wars
> and other upheavals. Christian warriors carved up the Islamic empire and cut
> off contact between great scientific centers. Here in Spain, the Catholic
> reconquest of Ferdinand and Isabella deprived Islamic science of the great
> libraries and schools in Cordoba, Seville and Toledo.
The muzzies would have burned them down otherwise.
> ...
>
> Several scholars said one problem is the lack of awareness among Arabs and
> Muslims about their own scientific heritage. "Muslims generally are unaware
> that their civilization had a high point of superiority in nearly every
> aspect," [Glen M. Cooper, a professor of the history of science and Islam at
> Brigham Young University] said. "Their current challenge is to face the fact
> that the Islamic edge has been completely lost. "It would be a hard thing, I
> think, to be part of a religion and culture with such a glorious history as
> that of Islam, when that glory is all in the distant past, and an
> essentially godless civilization -- from their perspective -- enjoys the
> lead in power and science."
>
> MORE:
> http://atheism.about.com/b/a/079086.htm
The muzzies have been chronically stupid since the 7th century.
Gary the mighty Yaako warrior.
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No, its fuzzy logic just works properly.
Why don't learn how to adjust date\time stupid
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