[ExI] are all cultures equivalent?.

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Tue Apr 14 10:24:33 UTC 2009


2009/4/14 John K Clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net>:
> <painlord2k at libero.it>
>
>> The "Zero" is a Indian or Indochina invention.
>> They [Islam] are only involved in the transmission of the
>> concept to west Europe
>
> I know but I was trying to be generous; I figured I'd get enough flack as it
> is. And I'm sure that sometime in the last 800 years Islam has done
> something that is worth more than a bucket of warm spit, it must have; but
> I'll be damned if I can think of an example at the moment.

On the basis of what you consider worthwhile, you could probably write
off most of the world's population over most of history.


-- 
Stathis Papaioannou



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