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**CenICrerflind** · 01-19-2012, 09:36 PM

I personally look at the problem from the perspective of Muslim neglect of science. I feel that we are still doing that. It is not so difficult to take up the challenge posed by the west because Islam and science are not antagonistic at all. Even then we Muslims are not taking up the challenge in spite of that fact that there are enough of us there to do the needful. There are Muslim scientists in every field of science in India, Pakistan, the Europe, the US, the Gulf, Australia and other places. Whole world is booing at Islam and Muslims as if this is a group of ignorant folks. Even without military power Muslim point of view will be taken seriously, people will start taking it seriously, only if we start opening our mouths. We are not doing that.

A major factor is money. Muslim scientists need to have private funding from Muslims. Otherwise they will always be under pressure to conform to the prevailing (atheist) dogma in scientific circles. I only know one brave PhD professor personally (an endocrinologist) who openly questions evolution. He is mocked and derided all the time.

Unfortunately, Muslim societies do not encourage people going into academia and research. In their minds, studying 7-10 years only to do research and teach, and not earn much money, is not a smart thing to do. This is why you will find plenty of Muslim doctors and engineers, but not nearly as many biologists and theoretical physicists. But we need academics who can devote time to understanding and interpreting information theory, higher level math, probability theory, genomics, cosmology and philosophy, etc. So there needs to be a financial and societal incentive for that.

01-19-2012, 09:36 PM	#8
CenICrerflind Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 390 Senior Member	I personally look at the problem from the perspective of Muslim neglect of science. I feel that we are still doing that. It is not so difficult to take up the challenge posed by the west because Islam and science are not antagonistic at all. Even then we Muslims are not taking up the challenge in spite of that fact that there are enough of us there to do the needful. There are Muslim scientists in every field of science in India, Pakistan, the Europe, the US, the Gulf, Australia and other places. Whole world is booing at Islam and Muslims as if this is a group of ignorant folks. Even without military power Muslim point of view will be taken seriously, people will start taking it seriously, only if we start opening our mouths. We are not doing that. A major factor is money. Muslim scientists need to have private funding from Muslims. Otherwise they will always be under pressure to conform to the prevailing (atheist) dogma in scientific circles. I only know one brave PhD professor personally (an endocrinologist) who openly questions evolution. He is mocked and derided all the time. Unfortunately, Muslim societies do not encourage people going into academia and research. In their minds, studying 7-10 years only to do research and teach, and not earn much money, is not a smart thing to do. This is why you will find plenty of Muslim doctors and engineers, but not nearly as many biologists and theoretical physicists. But we need academics who can devote time to understanding and interpreting information theory, higher level math, probability theory, genomics, cosmology and philosophy, etc. So there needs to be a financial and societal incentive for that.
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