BBC - Science and Islam

Physicist Jim Al-Khalili travels through Syria, Iran, Tunisia and Spain to tell the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries.
drattussays...

I'm surprised this doesn't have more votes. Especially today it seems relevant in demonstrating that just because you're on top today that doesn't mean you've got a natural right to it. Stick our heads in the sand and start denying observable data just because it conflicts with preconceived ideas and we can throw ourselves into a dark age of sorts too.

That's how it happened to them. Knowledge just started to make too many uncomfortable and they turned against it in favor of an old book. If it wasn't for that we might have been hundreds of years advanced past where we are today but we needed to wait for a whole different culture and people to pick up where they left off and even "rediscover" some of it.

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