Comment by 0xFFC

10 years ago

I love people who provide free scientific material for college student (or overall everybody). I am in religious country and I am ex-Muslim . In my perspective , if I were to choose prophet for humanity , I would choose people who educate people (or provide education material -books , papers, etc- for people) freely .

p.s. no offence . I am not saying people who selling their books are bad guys, not at all . I am just saying people who provide free material in my opinion are doing something incredible to humanity .

update : When I am saying "educate people* , I absolutely mean science.

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zappo2938  10 years ago

Isn't science and things like the invention of the scientific method and Arab numerals deeply rooted in the history of Islam?

  • silentsea90  10 years ago

    Arab numerals actually come from India. Fun fact: Arabic goes from right to left but their numbers go from left to right, because they were learnt from Sanskrit which is written from left to right.

  • 0xFFC  10 years ago

    Despite being ex-Muslim (and being an atheist) I don't have (or care) any viable information about history.Specially about Islam's history.

  • reality_czech  10 years ago

    That's kind of a weird question to ask. You are implying that somehow Islam is responsible for "the invention of the scientific method and Arab numerals." I don't think that's the case at all... there is nothing in the holy books of any of the major religions that could really be called the scientific method or Arab numerals. Cheerleading because some particular scientist or mathematician had [insert nationality or religion here] is kind of silly.

    • dragonwriter  10 years ago

      > You are implying that somehow Islam is responsible for "the invention of the scientific method and Arab numerals." I don't think that's the case at all...

      This much I agree with (though there may be a role of Islamic society in the development or spread of some key ideas, and Islam may contribute to that, calling Islam responsible for either the scientific method or the use of Arabic numerals is going farther than is supported.)

      However, I must take issue with this as support of it:

      > there is nothing in the holy books of any of the major religions that could really be called the scientific method or Arab numerals.

      While some major religions (especially, the Abrahamic ones) may give particularly important roles to "holy books", none of them have a content limited to their respective holy books, even if some (or some branches within some) purport that the entire content of the religion is derived from or capable of being understood by understanding the appropriate holy book. (Particularly, many of the groups for whom such a belief is part of the content of the religion have a holy book which does not contain that claim about itself, making such a belief about the role of the holy book itself a part of the content of the religion that is not contained within the holy book.)

      As such, the fact that something is not explicit in a religions holy book is not a basis for dismissing the responsibility or influence of the religion in that thing.

  • mkempe  10 years ago

    Not at all.