[QUOTE]Originally posted by Brad McFall:
There are good muslim science but again it may have been something already turned by the Chiense which we consider in pairs unawares.
What does that mean?
[This message has been edited by nos482, 09-20-2002][/B][/QUOTE]
In a text on Chinese Science Needham (a good biologist) notes how often things came to the west FROM China thru areas of Muslim and Indian living etc and I suspect that the turn made on the graph of what in the West is known as "Pascal's triangle" may have come ultimatiely from China through Muslim scholarship or not (I do not know)but any absolute rotation still I have left undecided about the anti-Aristotelianinsm inherent in Galelio's defense of natrual facts use which still could be more from Islamic sources than Chinese. I do notknow. NO edit.[/QUOTE]
I think Brad's referring to the pre-Western science of the Islamic world & China. It wasn't 'Muslim science' but it is just 'science' as we know today, albeit in a more primitive stage; however this step is crucial because the Muslim stage is the key to the current Western domination of scientific world. Some Muslim scholars are annoyed by this 'takeover' (in their minds only IMO), but if the science works, anything goes.
btw: Fellow board personalities, some of us wished to understand Brad McFall, and some even wished for a rosetta stone to decipher his words. Now that wish is fulfilled--see how Anne talk with Brad? This lady is the key to Brad's thoughts!
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