[Buddha-l] it's not about belief -= science & Christian religion

[Jim Peavler]

On Jan 6, 2006, at 11:43 AM, Bob Zeuschner wrote:
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> (2) Modern science is concerned with finding out what is true and  
> NOT assuming that we already know what is true.
> During the middle ages, what passed for science was studying nature  
> to determine what lesson god was teaching us.
>

Yes. And, contra Curt, this seems to be exactly the position of what  
passes for science in Islam. Every so called "scientific" article I  
can find by an Islamic apologist is arguing that all of modern  
science (with the exception of evolution which is damnable) is  
prefigured in the Quran. I have so far been unable to find a single  
actually scientific article by an Islamic writer. And I do not see  
much science being developed in any Islamic country. Building nuclear  
reactors and bombs at this stage is technology, not science.