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Entry: Inventing Islam Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/inventing_islam#15475 Post contents: The point of the article is not to make anyone look down on arabs. Nowadays the left (especially in Europe) has this new mania about proving that anything scientific really comes from the Islamic World and not the Christian one. The article seems to be a response to this tendency. And it is hard to imagine consistent contributions to science from a religion which views God as irrational. The Islamic world has made contributions to philosophy and science (Avicenna), but their contributions are enormously exaggerated to the expense of Christianity. What we call modern science, even if it is more associated with atheism than Christianity, has its origins in the Christian cultural sphere. It appears more logical that it is the outcome of a religion in which God is bound by rationality than one in which it is not, and unbiased history supports that claim. Sent at: 2008 12 02