Religious Conflicts And Today's Advances In Science
This is incorrect study of the progress of science. Wars have been a way to make progress in science. Penicillin, atomic energy, internet all came from the motives provided by wars or warlike circumstances. The people who made great progress in science were religious people. It is true sometimes priests and clerics opposed science, but they could never be effective. Wars of the past have very small ratio of religious wars. most of the wars like today, were politically driven. As far as Abrahamic religion is concerned, it did emphasise the use of the beauty of the world. Quran says: Say: “Who is there to forbid the beauty which God has brought forth for His creatures, and the good things from among the means of sustenance?” Say: “They are [lawful] in the life of this world unto all who have attained to faith – to be theirs alone on Resurrection Day.” Thus clearly do We spell out these messages unto people of [innate] knowledge! (7:32) It is also not true that all the modern progress is made by only the irreligious scientists.
If so, cite some valuable scientific discoveries from the time of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) or before, because what I have read so far does not contain the invention of more than one wheel.