Lawry, Thanks for sending the url to the article. The original posting was snipped just before the material indicating the upswing in research funding. Interesting.
Arthur -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of de Bivort Lawrence Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 6:30 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] [Dewayne-Net] Islam and science: The road to renewal Arthur, Read the full article. http://www.economist.com/news/international/21570677-after-centuries-stagnat ion-science-making-comeback-islamic-world-road On Jan 27, 2013, at 4:42 PM, Arthur Cordell wrote: > A Muslim scientific awakening is under way. > > Evidence???? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of michael > gurstein > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 3:49 PM > To: Futurework > Subject: Re: [Futurework] [Dewayne-Net] Islam and science: The road to > renewal > > Interesting article... > > M > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Dewayne Hendricks > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 12:39 PM > To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net > Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Islam and science: The road to renewal > > Islam and science: The road to renewal After centuries of stagnation > science is making a comeback in the Islamic world Jan 26th 2013 > <http://www.economist.com/news/international/21570677-after-centuries- > stagna > tion-science-making-comeback-islamic-world-road> > > THE sleep has been long and deep. In 2005 Harvard University produced > more scientific papers than 17 Arabic-speaking countries combined. The > world's > 1.6 billion Muslims have produced only two Nobel laureates in > chemistry and physics. Both moved to the West: the only living one, > the chemist Ahmed Hassan Zewail, is at the California Institute of > Technology. By contrast Jews, outnumbered 100 to one by Muslims, have > won 79. The 57 countries in the Organisation of the Islamic Conference > spend a puny 0.81% of GDP on research and development, about a third > of the world average. America, which has the world's biggest science budget, spends 2.9%; Israel lavishes 4.4%. > > Many blame Islam's supposed innate hostility to science. Some > universities seem keener on prayer than study. Quaid-i-Azam University > in Islamabad, for example, has three mosques on campus, with a fourth > planned, but no bookshop. Rote learning rather than critical thinking > is the hallmark of higher education in many countries. The Saudi > government supports books for Islamic schools such as "The > Unchallengeable Miracles of the Qur'an: The Facts That Can't Be Denied > By Science" suggesting an inherent conflict between belief and reason. > > Many universities are timid about courses that touch even tangentially > on politics or look at religion from a non-devotional standpoint. > Pervez Hoodbhoy, a renowned Pakistani nuclear scientist, introduced a > course on science and world affairs, including Islam's relationship > with science, at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, one of > the country's most progressive universities. Students were keen, but > Mr Hoodbhoy's contract was not renewed when it ran out in December; > for no proper reason, he says. (The university insists that the > decision had nothing to do with the course > content.) > > But look more closely and two things are clear. A Muslim scientific > awakening is under way. And the roots of scientific backwardness lie > not with religious leaders, but with secular rulers, who are as stingy > with cash as they are lavish with controls over independent thought. > > [snip] > > > > Dewayne-Net RSS Feed: <http://www.warpspeed.com/wordpress> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
