/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15152337
https://www.answering-islam.org

>>15022632
You should study Islam instead then

>>10545065

"Apologists always blame the crusades and the mongol invasion for the “mysterious” death of islamic science. But even before the Mongols sacked Baghdad (the intellectual capital of the muslim world) in the 13th century, and before the crusaders assblasted them in the Middle East, muslims could never really achieve any scientific breakthrough in their centuries of almost uncontested hegemony. Maybe because Muhammad really hated people who questioned his divine revelations and tried to improve on them, and has explicitly forbidden it:

>«The Prophet (pbuh) said, “Leave me as I have left you (i.e., do not ask me questions that go beyond what I’ve already told you). For those who came before you were doomed because of their questions and differences with their Prophets. If I forbid you from doing something, then abstain from it. And if I command you to do something, then do of it as much as you can."» (Sahih Bukhari 7288. https://sunnah.com/bukhari/96/19))

Just asking questions about something is enough to make that something haram (forbidden) even though before it was allowed:

>«The Prophet (pbuh) said, "The most sinful person among the Muslims is the one who asked about something which had not been prohibited, but was prohibited because of his asking."» (Sahih Bukhari 7289. https://sunnah.com/bukhari/96/20))

This obviously made muslims fearful to question and to investigate.
As Rodney Stark said, what killed islam's science was islam itself. How can you do research in biology, chemistry, physics or philosophy, when the law explicitly forbids it?

>«Unlawful knowledge includes:
>[...]
>-2- philosophy;
>[...]
>-5- the sciences of the materialists.
>-6- and anything that is a means to create doubts (n: in eternal truths)»
(Reliance of the Traveller, paragraph a7.2)

This little paragraph is enough to kill any hope of scientific development and to qualify islam as the most backward religion currently in existence. "