Islam Creator of the Modern Age
1. Islam: Creator of the Modern Age
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These brief references are actually very misleading.
For example, the saying of the earliest known
philosopher, Thales, “All is water,” would appear
to be a scientific sentence. But when taken as a
whole-”All is water, and the world is full of gods,”
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it assumes a superstitious character. (Thales was a
philosopher who lived in the sixth century B.C.
None of his writings or contemporary source
materials survive. His name is included in the
canon of the legendary seven wise men.)
The truth is that for both Greeks and Romans, there
was only one barrier obstructing the path of science,
and that was their polytheistic thinking. This
indeed was what had robbed them of the realistic
bent of mind, which is so essential to scientific
investigation. There was, therefore, no question of
their ever making any progress in this field.
JOURNEY TOWARDS PROGRESS
Many great scientific minds were born in ancient
times in the European country of Greece, one of
them being Archimedes, who made great strides in
hydrostatics, even inventing a simple machine—the
