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[quote][quote].........9/11 can't turn us into winners. Universities can.[/quote][blue]Achievements of Euro-American Civilization: the Judeo-Christian nations of North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel[/blue] [green]Achievements of the Islamic World: Arabia, North Africa, Iran, Pakistan, and other Central Asian Muslim-majority nations[/green] [b]The Sciences: technology for the advancement of human knowledge and prosperity[/b] Achievements of Euro-American Civilization: [blue]* Printing press * Steam engine * Railroad * Interchangeable parts (Eli Whitney) * Telegraph (Samuel Morse) * Telephone (Alexander Graham Bell) * Electric light bulb and phonograph (Thomas Edison) * Scientific management (Frederick Winslow Taylor) * Lean manufacturing (Henry Ford, later adopted by Toyota) * Internal combustion engine * Automobile * Mechanized agriculture * Airplane (Wright Brothers) * Synthetic rubber and plastics * Nuclear fission and nuclear reactors * Electronic computers[/blue] Achievements of the Islamic World: [green]* Arabic numerals[/green] [b]Medicine: science and technology for the alleviation of human suffering. Achievements of Euro-American Civilization: [blue]* Eradication of smallpox (Edward Jenner) * Bifocal eyeglasses (Benjamin Franklin) * Vaccinations, germ theory, and Pasteurization (Louis Pasteur) * Eradication of typhoid fever and cholera (chlorination of water) * Aseptic surgery (Joseph Lister) * X-ray machine (Roentgen, others) * Blood typing and blood transfusions (Karl Landsteiner) * Discovery of insulin (Banting, MacLeod) * Penicillin (Alexander Fleming) and other antibiotics * Eradication of polio (Jonas Salk) * Open-heart surgery * Organ transplants * Magnetic resonance imaging * Microsurgical reattachment of severed limbs * Fiber-optic surgery * Antiviral drugs[/blue] Achievements of the Islamic World: [green]* Medieval Arab medicine was probably superior to superstition-ridden Western medicine. Nowadays, they are far better at cutting limbs off than they are at reattaching them with Euro-American microsurgery. No one from the Islamic world has yet earned a Nobel Prize for medicine.[/green] [b]Exploration[/b] Achievements of Euro-American Civilization: [blue]* Alexander the Great o An interest in geography spurred his expedition to India and opened commerce between India and the Greco-Roman world * Marco Polo * Discovery of the Americas (Leif Ericson, Scolnus, Christopher Columbus) * Circumnavigation of Africa (Vasco da Gama) * Circumnavigation of the world (Magellen, later Sir Francis Drake) * Lewis and Clark Expedition * Expedition to the North Pole (Robert E. Peary) * Expedition to the South Pole * Conquest of Mount Everest (Sir Edmund Hillary) * Exploration of the bottom of the Mariana Trench in a diving bell * Space exploration and lunar landing (Russia, United States)[/blue] Achievements of the Islamic World: [green]* Arab merchants traveled on long caravan routes between Asia and Europe.[/green] [b]Literature (Nobel Laureates are in bold type)[/b] Achievements of Euro-American Civilization: [blue]* Homer * Virgil * Geoffrey Chaucer * Cervantes (Don Quixote) * William Shakespeare * Leo Tolstoy * Alexander Dumas * Herman Melville * Charles Dickens * Alfred Tennyson * Henryk Sienkiewicz * Samuel Clemens * Rudyard Kipling * Pearl Buck * Winston Churchill * Ernest Hemingway * C.S. Lewis * C.S. Forester[/blue] Achievements of the Islamic World: [green]* The Arabian Nights (multiple authors) * Omar Khayyam (The Rubaiyat) * Shirin Ebadi o "Shirin Ebadi," Wall Street Journal, Monday October 13 2003, states that the Iranian woman who just won the Nobel Peace Prize was a prisoner of conscience in the "Islamic" nation of Iran. She was persecuted (jailed, disbarred) for "slandering the government." No one from the Islamic world has yet earned a Nobel Prize for literature.[/green] [b]The Military Sciences[/b] Achievements of Euro-American Civilization: [blue]* Gunpowder (roughly concurrent with China's invention of gunpowder) * Arsenale of Venice (Venetian shipyards) * Trace Italienne fortress * Socket bayonet (Vauban) * Posting or rising trot (attributed to Hungary and Poland) * Light hussars (King Mathias Corvin of Hungary) * Husaria or Winged Hussars (King Stephen Bathory of Poland) o Polish medium cavalry used a very innovative hollow lance called a kopia to outreach infantry pikes. Polish hussars crushed the Turks at Vienna in 1683. * Horse artillery, also known as "flying artillery." o Invented by Poland in the 17th century, later adopted by Prussia under Frederick the Great. * Professional military academies (West Point, Sandhurst, and so on) * Submarine (Bushnell's Turtle, C.S.S. Hunley) o The Hunley was the first submarine to actually sink an enemy warship, although it also was sunk. Note that Euro-Americans Leonardo da Vinci and Jules Verne foresaw this invention and its potential applications. * Breechloading rifle * Ironclad battleship * Machine gun (Gatling, Maxim, Browning, Gardner, Nordenfeldt) * The tank * Military aircraft * Shaped charges * Nuclear weapons * Ballistic missiles * Kevlar and ceramic body armor o This is why the casualty ratio from Iraq is about 10 wounded for every fatality, as opposed to the historical rate of three or four wounded for every fatality. Armor, along with innovative medical techniques such as dressings that cause immediate blood clotting, save many lives. * Depleted uranium darts * Chobham armor * Anti-ballistic missiles (e.g. Israeli Arrow) * Directed-energy weapons[/blue] Achievements of the Islamic World: [green](Note: slaughtering unarmed civilians does not count as an achievement) * Composite bow, a very effective weapon from the steppes * Giant cannons (Turkey), used for the capture of Constantinople in 1453[/green] Edited by: aboosait on Sunday, January 18, 2009 2:34 AM[/quote]
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