SCIENCE & ISLAM 1/6 | The language of science العلم والإسلام
A BBC documentary examining the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries.
Isaac Newton is, as most will agree, the greatest physicist of all time.
At the very least, he is the undisputed father of modern optics, or so we are told at school where our textbooks abound with his famous experiments with lenses and prisms, his study of the nature of light and its reflection, and the refraction and decomposition of light into the colours of the rainbow.
Yet, the truth is rather greyer; and I feel it important to point out that, certainly in the field of optics, Newton himself stood on the shoulders of a giant who lived 700 years earlier.
For, without doubt, another great physicist, who is worthy of ranking up alongside Newton, is a scientist born in AD 965 in what is now Iraq who went by the name of al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham.
Most people in the West will never have even heard of him.
As a physicist myself, I am quite in awe of this man’s contribution to my field, but I was fortunate enough to have recently been given the opportunity to dig a little into his life and work through my recent filming of a three-part BBC Four series on medieval Islamic scientists.
Modern methods
Popular accounts of the history of science typically suggest that no major scientific advances took place in between the ancient Greeks and the European Renaissance.
But just because Western Europe languished in the Dark Ages, does not mean there was stagnation elsewhere. Indeed, the period between the 9th and 13th Centuries marked the Golden Age of Arabic science.
Great advances were made in mathematics, astronomy, medicine, physics, chemistry and philosophy. Among the many geniuses of that period Ibn al-Haytham stands taller than all the others.
First shown on BBC4 05/01/2009
Professor Jim Al-Khalili presents Science and Islam
Duration : 0:10:0
Science – It Works! – The Atheist Experience
Chat: http://www.atheism-magazine.com/Atheist_Experience_Live_Chat_Room1.html
Atheist Experience Live: http://www.atheism-magazine.com/Atheist_Experience_Live_Chat_Room2.html
Science – It Works! (The Atheist Experience with Matt Dillahunty & Tracie Harris).
Please subscribe to:
• http://www.YouTube.com/FFreeThinker
• http://www.YouTube.com/TheAtheistExperience
• http://www.YouTube.com/AtheistExperience
What is The Atheist Experience?
The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at an atheist and non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin (ACA), a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals.
http://www.atheist-experience.com/
http://atheistexperience.blogspot.com/
http://www.nonprophetsradio.com/
http://wiki.ironchariots.org/
.
Duration : 0:4:43
Creation Research Science Degrees – The Atheist Experience #597
Best educational channels: • http://www.atheism-magazine.com/topics/Best_Educational_Channels_Science.html Undersubscribed channels: • http://www.atheism-magazine.com/topics/Underrated_Undersubscribed_Channels.html Best Atheist Experience clips & chat: • http://www.atheism-magazine.com/Atheist_Experience_Live_Chat_Room1.html Creation Research Science Degrees (TheAtheist Experience #597 with Matt Dillahunty and Don Baker). Please subscribe to: • http://YouTube.com/FFreeThinker • http …
Duration : 0:5:29
Science vs. Intuition – Richard Dawkins @ Pop!Tech
Science vs. Intuition – Richard Dawkins @ Pop!Tech (Part 2).
Please subscribe to:
• http://www.YouTube.com/FFreeThinker
• http://www.YouTube.com/AtheistExperience
• http://www.YouTube.com/TheAtheistExperience
Richard Dawkins believes sciences ability to admit ignorance is one of its greatest strengths. On the flip side, he proposes that faith remains arrogant and all too certain of its validity without any rational set of proofs.
Richard Dawkins is the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He was voted Britains leading public intellectual by readers of Prospect magazine and was named one of Time Magazines “100 Most Influential People” for 2007. Among his books are “The Selfish Gene”, “The Blind Watchmaker”, “Climbing Mount Improbable”, “Unweaving the Rainbow”, “A Devils Chaplain”, “The Ancestors Tale”, and the New York Times best seller “The God Delusion”.
• http://www.poptech.org
• http://www.richarddawkins.net
• http://www.youtube.com/richarddawkinsdotnet
.
Duration : 0:7:30
IIPC Participation at Information Technology & Commerce Network 2002 in Karachi Pakistan
Mohammad Shaikh chairman-IIPC tv from Pakistan is student of renowned muslim scholar Sheikh Ahmed Deedat (Late)-President of IPCI from South Africa. Mohammad Shaikh is a remarkable muslim scholar with charismatic personality, unique in presenting the relevant Ayats / Signs on a particular topic from Al-Qur’an inorder to clarify the Spirit / Essence in English and Urdu. Jazak Allah.
Duration : 0:9:25
Islam, christianity, Zakir, science, deedat
Islam, christianity, Zakir, science, deedat
Islam, christianity, Zakir, science, deedat
Islam, christianity, Zakir, science, deedat
islam & Science-1