How did Muslim beliefs help to bring about mathematical and scientific advancements?
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I dont think it was so much their beliefs but the state of the area.  Europe was very close if not the poorest area of the world in the middle ages.  The world of Islam was wealtheir and were taking time to translate ancient greek and roman works.  With this also comes a desire for new ideas and thinking.  The only literate people in europe were some nobels and clergy.  Most of their works were focused on religion and the bible.  Because of this alot of science and the like was ignored until the crusades and the contact with Islamic people.
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Those verses speak for themselves.\n\nIf a devout Muslim read it, fear of offending Mohammed or Allah would take over, so would believe it.  Otherwise they could be considered apostate.\n\nMy God is the Great scientists.  Genesis 1 or any bible book doesn't contradict with science, unless the science is based on a wrong theory (Like God is the Monkey Spirit).
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it is the world's second-largest religion. Followers of Islam are known as Muslims. Muslims believe that God (Allāh) revealed his word to humanity through many earlier prophets, and that Muhammad was the final prophet. Muslims believe that the core message of Islam, which is submission to God, has been the essential message in the teaching of all God's prophets. The faith went through a period of rapid expansion after Muhammad's death in the 7th century, and its followers can be found all over the world today, especially in the Middle East and Asia.
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the following Wikipedia article links some studies.  Personally, I think that such a relation likely exists, but not due so much to greater intelligence of those without religion, but because a) academic institutions can be hostile toawrd people of faith, 2) non-religious people are more likely to seek divine purpose and meaning in academic pursuits, while religious people seek meaning from religious pursuits, and 3) intelligent/educated people are going to place more faith on the powers of human intellect than those who do not have such values.
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A Muslim should not believe in astrology and things associated with it such as fortune telling etc as it is nothing but LIES \n\nThe Islamic belief is that Allah is supreme and ONLY he has knowledge of the future, which is very logical to believe.\n\nThe argument here is that if Allah claims ONLY he has knowledge of the future believing in something or someone other than him to have powers equal to Allah is shirk (equaling partners to him) so it is a GREAT sin.\n\nStay away from astrology if you are a Muslim. If you are to comeback and ask me sometimes what the sleuth Sayers say are true ?\n\nThere is a hadith in which prophet says that they will give you stories which they intercept from Satan but for one truth Satan will add a million lies. So practically all are lies and its a sin to believe anything other than Allah has powers of future
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We use the numeral system today that the muslims came up with to make math matical equations easier instead of using the roman numerals
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Muslims accept the Bible as their early history.
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Mohamad didnt create 2 beliefs, after his death his followers separated in to different groups and the majority was Shia or Sunni. Like in christianity how there are Babtists, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic.. u get the picture.
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Religion has created and set the foundation for modern education. It set up institutions to teach people about the Bible, and educated  priests. \n\nIn time, this branched out into classical studies and natural sciences, and eventually brought about modern schools. So, religion did have a benefit in that regard.
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Science, like god, was invented by several men over the thousands of years.
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Mathematics - plane geometry in particular - has seveal widely accepted truths. Mormons, Muslims and Methodists all prove two triangles are congruent the same way.\n\nHindu children believe their pet will be reincarnated.
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Muslims are very intelligent people.
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Actually religion is much older than science. What the ancients could not explain otherwise was attributed to a creation of a higher power (read God). Scientists are slowly discovering the different facets of this higher power by applying science and technology
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science , all its kinds is the prove of Islamic religion , and the living proof that the Holy Quran wasn't written by a man 1400 years ago , cos there's no man lived 1400 years ago , who knew about all the scientific facts we found in The islam Holy Book , \n\n And for the who is talking about laser and computers ,and saying dont be silly how I'm gonna find them in a holy book , \n        Take a look at this site : http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/scientific_index.html\n\n Maybe you get a Shock !
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Muslims believe that they memorise ABRAHAM, forefather of Prophet Mohammad, and all Israelite prophets.  Abraham tried to offer scarifice of his son.  (Ishmail as muslims believe)
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The Spread of Islam\nFrom the oasis cities of Makkah and Madinah in the Arabian desert, the message of Islam went forth with electrifying speed. Within half a century of the Prophet's death, Islam had spread to three continents. Islam is not, as some imagine in the West, a religion of the sword nor did it spread primarily by means of war. It was only within Arabia, where a crude form of idolatry was rampant, that Islam was propagated by warring against those tribes which did not accept the message of God--whereas Christians and Jews were not forced to convert. Outside of Arabia also the vast lands conquered by the Arab armies in a short period became Muslim not by force of the sword but by the appeal of the new religion. It was faith in One God and emphasis upon His Mercy that brought vast numbers of people into the fold of Islam. The new religion did not coerce people to convert. Many continued to remain Jews and Christians and to this day important communities of the followers of these faiths are found in Muslim lands. \nMoreover, the spread of Islam was not limited to its miraculous early expansion outside of Arabia. During later centuries the Turks embraced Islam peacefully as did a large number of the people of the Indian subcontinent and the Malay-speaking world. In Africa also, Islam has spread during the past two centuries even under the mighty power of European colonial rulers. Today Islam continues to grow not only in Africa but also in Europe and America where Muslims now comprise a notable minority.
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no, because those with the most creative and and popular religion get to spread their genes and message, even though the most creative religion is monotheism [,Islam, Judaism, Christianity.. etc...] it lets you concentrate all of your creative  reasoning ability on one subject so only one GOD takes the credit and sometimes [wrongly] the blame! like Einstein said 'creativity is more important than knowledge and the simplest explanation is the correct one!'