re: #45 LudwigVanQuixote

LOL! A very good point. Given that the Arab world gave us Algebra, this is a particularly sad demonstration of how religion can muddle the ability to think clearly.

If you reach back into the Age of Enlightenment England and pluck someone at random, you’d be unlikely to fish out a Newton, a Bentham, a Harvey, and so forth. It’d be just some ordinary Englishman, as subject to the mores and attitudes of his times as his fellows. So it probably was with the Arab Golden Age.