Quote Originally Posted by The Dunster View Post
Agree about Quantum Mechanics. And it pretty much placed the dividing line between science and religion once and for all. The Christians could no longer argue about intelligent design and a deterministic universe given the existence of a universal constant with a non-zero value [Plancks Constant]

Without the Arab scholars much of our histories would have been lost throughout the dark ages and as such many of the building blocks upon which modern science and methodology were built upon.

They also made solid contributions to physics, astronomy, biology, universal healthcare, and mathematics.

As such, Islamic scholars were so highly regarded up until the end of the golden age that they were very well paid for their efforts.

Compare this to Christianity which blatantly opposes science and has absolutely no respect for evidenced based research.

The problen for the Islamic world is that they peaked a very long time ago and beyond the last of the golden age scholars it could be argued that not only was there little if any progress - they may have even regressed.
no doubt they had previously made massive contributions, but you could be stronger with the last statement - they have done nothing lately. for a lazy 1+ billion people with supposedly the best textbook on the planet, they've hardly made an impact of late.

agree re: christians. not just the historical meddling but the more recent stuff in schools disgusts me. i feel sorry for the children