Hi Nadine - Long time no see <g>
admitting that Jews do, indeed, have some historical connection to Jerusalem
Of course. The same "historical connection" that Greeks have to Western Anatolia, native Indians have to America, etc.
Re Zero - I looked around a bit, and it seems my 7th grade mathematics teacher (who was American, by the way, so no bias towards the Arabs there that I can think of) was wrong. Thanks for pointing that out.
While Arabs were great scientists and scholars a thousand years ago, please name some recent discoveries.
I would not try to. Science does not flourish well in religious environments, as I have said in the post you replied to.
Still, the point was not to try and prove Arabs are great scientists. It was to refute the claim, reached through a logical fallacy, that the rarity of Arab scientists (Nobel winners in particular) must mean that they do not have the "ability to think on multiple levels":
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The reason I said that in history there are quite a few of them was to refute the claim that there is something in the Arab genetic pool that prevents them from being scientists.
News to me that Egypt, Syria or Iraq have relgious governments.
Gee. The dominance of religion in these countries would not be such news to you if you had ever spent a few days in one of them. Nobody said anything about "religious governments". What I meant, obviously, is that religion is everywhere, in schools, in the mentality of the people, and science (i.e. 'questioning God's will') is not encouraged.
Its not easy to figure out exactly what went wrong in that part of the world, but easy excuses are not going to make matters clearer.
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