Islam Creator of the Modern Age
1. Islam: Creator of the Modern Age
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road to knowledge and wisdom that lies through
disciplined enquiry into isolated aspects of the
natural world. Indeed, when one considers how few
have been the cultures in which science has
flourished, one may reverse the question and
consider Rome as the normal, and classical Greece
as the surprising phenomenon to be explained.”
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The historians have failed to produce any
convincing answer to this question. But the answer
becomes obvious when we take into account the
fact that the Romans were polytheists. It was
actually polytheism and idol worship, which stood
in the way of their carrying out research and
investigation in the field of science. The concept of
the sanctity of all natural objects prevented them
from making a conquest of them.
THE DAWN OF THE SCIENTIFIC AGE
The
Encyclopaedia Britannica
states under the
heading of “History of Science” that the present
way of comprehending the natural world is a very
recent development. It
was possible for great
civilizations of the past to achieve high levels of
