Re: Islam and Science
with all due respect, not sure what is validity of this statement…how come islam was fountain of knowledge? was Islam teaching jaber bin hayyan chemistry or was islam inducting knowledge into Al‑Razi, Al‑Kindī, or Al‑Farabi on their respective subjects ? of course not…but yes islam never stopped one from gaining knowledge and from thinking… but to state* “Islam at one point in time was the fountain of knowledge. Its contribution to science is unquestionable”* suggests that somehow today we are so behind in science because we are not following islam or something…Muslims love this type of thought process…
and if you keep thinking like this, you start deviating from path to find the truth…remember the number 1 rule to discover something … to innovate something … to create a game-changer concept … is to challenge status quo, to think unbiased, and to break shackles. That does not mean you need to be atheist but you definitely need to think freely … and I am not talking about scientific inventions only…it applies to the subject of social science as well, where Muslims are centuries behind