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Old 04-02-2011, 01:08 PM   #216
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Originally Posted by ynwa03 View Post
How utterly ridiculous and ignorant. The majority of modern day science and mathematics comes from the earlier days of the Islamic Empire.

Yeah you guys are really not stubborn at all.
Not really. The flowchart isn't stating that scientific process can't come from religious cultures or people. Rather, that decisions based on faith follow a very different path than decisions based on science. Of course most scientific discovery prior to the 20th century came from theistic societies, because there simply wasn't such a thing as an atheistic society. That said, the Islamic Empire during the Golden Age shared far more with the constitutional monarchies of Europe that emerged through the enlightenment than it did with modern Islamic republics. In particular, faith was seen as a particularly personal thing that could not be extended to the public realm and to the sciences. Which sort of backs up the point of the graphic.

The way that I think the flowchart is wrong is this: most issues of faith in a modern sense are those that are those in which it's impossible to apply contradictory evidence to. Contradictory evidence for belief in the existence of a god simply doesn't exist. Really, the only modern-day beliefs that the this chart apply to are people who still believe that the earth is only 6000 years old or that evolution is a hoax.

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