RE: How Muslims believed earth was spherical long before anybody mentions it.
March 17, 2015 at 7:58 am
(March 17, 2015 at 7:55 am)bennyboy Wrote: I don't think undermining the contributions of the Islamic world to science and philosophy is sensible. They achieved many great things while Europe was still staggering hundreds of years after the fall of Rome.
That doesn't mean God is real, or Islam is sensible. But I think it's fair to say that there was much clear and sensible thinking going on in the world of Islam, and still is.
I think we've said that repeatedly here. As far as fundamental science goes, though, they kind of kicked themselves out of the game for the time being.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
