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Originally posted by djohnsto77
Islam's contribution to mathematics:
Two trains leave stations A & B 100 miles apart heading for each other. How many jihadis will be needed on each train to get them to collide, assuming the first junction is 25 miles away from station B? Will additional suicide bombers be needed or will the impact be enough to kill most aboard?
[edit on 6/10/2007 by djohnsto77]
At least 173 Jews and persons of half-Jewish ancestry have been awarded the Nobel Prize, accounting for 23% of all individual recipients worldwide between 1901 and 2006, and constituting 37% of all US recipients2 during the same period. In the scientific research fields of Chemistry, Economics, Medicine, and Physics, the corresponding world and US percentages are 27% and 39%, respectively. Jews currently make up approximately 0.25% of the world's population and 2% of the US population.
Dr. Ahmad Zaweel is the only Arab scientist to have received the Nobel science prize and the only Muslim to have received one since the death of the Pakistani physicist Dr. Abdul Salam. Yet there are around 1.2 billion Muslims in the world. What then is behind the scientific lethargy in the Islamic and Arab world and the consequent economic backwardness in comparison with the West and the Far East? Is it down to the inability of the Muslim World to isolate science from religion, which, it is suggested, works as a barrier?