DGDevin wrote:
Mike Dobony wrote:

If you were Ayatollah of the world you wouldn't care about science.
The history of Islam is one of repression of science, among other
things.

Man, you need to do some reading. Start with a fellow named Kitab
al-Manazir, who between 1011 and 1021 wrote the seven-volume Book Of
Optics that helped to establish the modern scientific method. That's not
surprising when you consider that while Europe was still
mucking around in the Dark Ages, science and art were flourishing in
much of the Islamic world. While that sadly changed over the
centuries, it is foolish to pretend that at one time the Islamic
world wasn't ahead of the west in scientific terms. And for that
matter Christianity doesn't have such a great record when it comes to
suppressing science. Come to think of it, a significant number of
today's Christians seem to have some problems when it comes to
science, don't they.

At one time, Islam WAS ahead of the west. But not lately.

With 1.4 billion adherents to the faith, Muslims have been awarded TWO
scientific Nobel Prizes.