Speed of Light

[-EntropyTrader]

Quote from KymarFye:
If it weren't for Christian monks and Islamic scholars, the bases for the scientific method - in the works of the ancient Greeks, especially Aristotle - would have been lost.

Pleease, Ancient Egypt and India laid the foundations of mathematics. The Greeks added onto that. Science went underground during the Dark Ages and was revived during the Renisance, after the Dark Ages controlled by the Vermin (child-raping) Creationists had ended.
Christian Monks may have added a line or two to mathematics. Islamic scholars added Nothing.

 

[KymarFye]

Quote from -EntropyTrader:



Pleease, Ancient Egypt and India laid the foundations of mathematics. The Greeks added onto that. Science went underground during the Dark Ages and was revived during the Renisance, after the Dark Ages controlled by the Vermin (child-raping) Creationists had ended.
Christian Monks may have added a line or two to mathematics. Islamic scholars added Nothing.

If it weren't for the Christian monks and Islamic scholars, protecting and painstakingly re-copying texts from the ancient world, little or none of the knowledge you describe would have been available to Galileo, Copernicus, and others.

 

[KymarFye]

http://www.malaspina.com/site/person_968.asp

 

[-EntropyTrader]

Quote from KymarFye:
If it weren't for the Christian monks and Islamic scholars, protecting and painstakingly re-copying texts from the ancient world, little or none of the knowledge you describe would have been available to Galileo, Copernicus, and others.

Ya, they were the Minority…trying to protect the knowledge from book burning creationist ceremonies.

 

[-EntropyTrader]

Bottom Line: Islamic Terrorists invaded and took over all of Egypt and much of India. They pretty much plagiarized 'almost' all of what they claim to have contributed. Their forte was Terror and Suicide Attacks, not Mathematics.



As far as the Pretend Followers of Christ during the Dark Ages, here’s their contribution:

People like Patty Robertson and his army of useful idiots pretty much controlled all of Europe during the Dark Ages, a period of time during which no significant progress in the arts and sciences were made because it was not allowed. During this period, anything that had to due with Ancient European culture was all but destroyed.
Death Machine Bureaucracies like the Vatican were very hard at work during this time and even afterward condoning and encouraging:
- The rape of countless millions of children, especially boys, an age old tradition that continues to this day despite the threat of litigation.
- The encouragement of domestic violence – towards women and children.
- Also the encouragement/cheerleading of slavery, genocide of indigenous peoples, the holocaust, etc., etc.

 

[ShoeshineBoy]

Quote from -EntropyTrader:



Old, New, or Middle Earth Creationists…they all talk gobbledygook.

You're entitled to your opinion and I to mine...

 

[ArchAngel]

Quote from -EntropyTrader:
Islamic scholars added Nothing.

Uninformed opinions are always hilarious.

Arab society of that time shouldn't be confused with the insane fundamentalism that grips that part of the globe now. Fundamentalists of ANY religion are dangerous.

Those monks wouldn't have had a big chunk of what they did if it weren't for the Middle Eastern scholars, schools, and libraries they obtained copies from. Not to mention what Arab mathematicians and scientists added to the fields while western society was living in rat infested villages, drinking urine infused water, and dying from the plague.

 

[-EntropyTrader]

KymarFye
Looking at your sig, I assume you respect Freddie N.’s philosophy.
Then why the hell would you support the creationists, Freddie hated them with a passion.

 

[-EntropyTrader]

Uninformed opinions are always hilarious.

True - LOL

Arab society of that time shouldn't be confused with the insane fundamentalism that grips that part of the globe now. Fundamentalists of ANY religion are dangerous.

True

Those monks wouldn't have had a big chunk of what they did if it weren't for the Middle Eastern scholars, schools, and libraries they obtained copies from.

True. They made copies and passed them along – originality not required.

 

[-EntropyTrader]

Anyway, this thread (orginally about physics - something about the speed of light) was evolving quite nicely till the creationists entered and did what they've always done - stifle scientific investigation.