Po srijedi je cista intelektualno-kulturalna razmjena iliti "meme flow".
Cinjenica je da temelji moderne misli i tehnoloskog napretka leze prvenstveno u starogrckoj kulturi.
S danasnje tacke gledista pomalo je nevjerovatna konstatacija da za danasnji tehnoloski stupanj mozemo zahvaliti arapima! Naime, genezom i ekspanzijom krscanstva ljudima Starog kontinenta se zatvaraju oci i pocinje visestoljetno silovanje razuma. Dok u ondasnjoj Crnoj Evropi gore vjestice i starogrcki spisi u isto vrijeme na Orijentu arapi prevode i izucavaju djela Aristotela, Ptolemeja, Erastotena, Arhimeda, itd. Tako biva spasena moderna misao. Nakon skoro milenija, prodiranjem islamske kulture u Evropu dolazi i do budjenja naucne misli u Staroj dami. Ponovo dolazi do razmjene misli i naucnog empirizma izmedju Evrope i Arabije, narocito na polju astronomije, matematike i medicine, ali ovaj put u suprotnom smijeru. Evropa se daje na empirizam i tehnoloski napredak sto inicira i sam kolonijalizam...
...@danas je dala objasnjenje za ovaj period...
...i daje se na amputiranje teoloskog dogmatizma, sto joj daje eksponencijalni intelektualni skok kojim Istok ostavlja daleko iza sebe.
Eh sada, zasto naucna misao "stoji" na Orijentu!?
Ima jedan lijep clanak u Discover-u, "Nauka i Islam", koji se bavi bas ovim problemom.
Jedan od zakljucaka je da je najvjerovatniji inhibitor naucnog napretka pogresna i naopaka metodologija! Takodjer, da bi se dobio sto bolji uvid u ovaj fenomen moramo imati na umu interakciju izmedju religije, politike, tradicije i nauke na danasnjem Orijentu. Postavit cu najzanimljivije dijelove teksta a ostatak mozete naci na linku u dnu.
Science and Islam in Conflict
All over the world, no matter what the cultural or language differences, science is more or less guided by scientific principles—except in many Islamic countries, where it is guided by the Koran. This is the ultimate story about science and religion.
...What people call the scientific method, he explains, is really the Islamic method: “All the wealth of knowledge in the world has actually emanated from Muslim civilization. The Prophet Muhammad said to seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. The very first verse came down: ‘Read.’ You are required to try to know something about your creator through meditation, through analysis, experimentation, and observation.”...
...Religion is a powerful force throughout the Arab world—but perhaps nowhere more so than here. The common explanation is that the Egyptian people, rich and poor alike, turned to God after everything else failed: the mess of the government’s socialist experiment in the 1960s; the downfall of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Arab nationalism; the military debacle of the 1967 war with Israel; poverty; inept government—the list goes on...
...Islam is in many ways more tolerant of scientific study than is Christian fundamentalism. It does not, for example, argue that the world is only 6,000 years old. Cloning research that does not involve people is becoming more widely accepted. In recent times, though, knowledge in Egypt has waned. And who is accountable for the decline?...
...Elsewhere, he notes the Prophet’s references to “the seven earths”; El-Naggar claims that geologists say that Earth’s crust consists of seven zones. In another passage, the Prophet said that there were 360 joints in the body, and other Islamic researchers claim that medical science backs up the figure. Such knowledge, the thinking goes, could only have been given by God. Nobody can just write what he thinks without proof. But we have real proof that the story of Adam as the first man is true...
...Critics are quick to point out that Islamic scientists tend to use each other as sources, creating an illusion that the work has been validated by research. The existence of 360 joints, in fact, is not accepted in medical communities; rather, the number varies from person to person, with an average of 307. These days most geologists divide Earth’s crust into 15 major zones...
...El-Naggar even sees moral meaning in the earthquake that triggered the 2005 tsunami and washed away nearly a quarter of a million lives. Plate tectonics and global warming be damned: God had expressed his wrath over the sins of the West. Why, then, had God punished Southeast Asia rather than Los Angeles or the coast of Florida? His answer: Because the lands that were hit had tolerated the immoral behavior of tourists...
“This tendency to use their knowledge of science to ‘prove’ that the religious interpretations of life are correct is really corrupting,” he tells me. Soltan, who got his doctorate at the University of Northern Illinois, works in a small office that’s pungent with tobacco smoke; journals and newspapers lie stacked on his desk and floor. “Their methodology is bad,” he says. Soltan explains that Islamic scientists start with a conclusion (the Koran says the body has 360 joints) and then work toward proving that conclusion. To reach the necessary answer they will, in this instance, count things that some orthopedists might not call a joint. “They’re sure about everything, about how the universe was created, who created it, and they just need to control nature rather than interpret it,” Soltan adds. “But the driving force behind any scientific pursuit is that the truth is still out there.”
Researchers who don’t agree with Islamic thinking “avoid questions or research agendas” that could put them in opposition to authorities—thus steering clear of intellectual debate. In other words, if you are a scientist who is not an Islamic extremist, you simply direct your work toward what is useful. Scientists who contradict the Koran “would have to keep a low profile.” When pressed for examples, Soltan does not elaborate.
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