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Old 07-06-2010, 10:13 AM
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Default A moon crater is named after one very prominent Muslim scientist.
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Originally Posted by bkcunningham1 View Post
Taltarzac, I am missing something here with the point you were making. Regardless of the Muslim world's medieval contribution to science, why would the President of the United States tell the chief of the NASA program that one of his main duties as head of NASA is reaching "out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering," ?

I was only addressing the fact that Muslim science is nothing to make light of as they had some scholars who made significant contributions to science.

Some of that science could even have helped put men on the moon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham