The 1,001 Inventions Tour is a Fraud & The Golden Age is a Myth

Response to #1 - I see no rebuttal that the windmill was not an invention of the Muslims and was acquired upon the conquest of the Persians. My opponent incorrectly stated the Caliph, Omar, ordered the construction for a Persian when he fact "I heard that you make windmills; make one for me as well." He was assassinated at the Mosque in Medina in retailiation for the conquest of Persia. When I said Muslim slave, I meant he was a Persian slave of the Muslims and not a Muslim himself. Response to #2 - As for irrigation, Michael Decker (2009) refutes this claim showing widespread cultivation and consumption of staples such as durum wheat, Asiatic rice, and sorghum as well as cotton were already commonplace under the Roman Empire and Sassanid Empire centuries before Islam. Decker concludes that the agricultural practices of Muslim cultivators did not fundamentally differ from those of pre-Islamic times, but rather evolved from the hydraulic know-how and 'basket' of agricultural plants inherited from their Roman and Persian predecessors. Decker shows that basically all important agricultural devices, including the all-important watermills, but also waterwheels, shadufs, norias, sakias, water screws, and various kinds of water pumps were widely known and applied by Greek and Roman farmers long before the Muslim conquests.[1] It has actually been shown agricultural production declined in areas brought under Muslim rule in the Middle Ages. Today, the Islamic World is importing over 50% of the food it consumes. I suppose you are speaking of the Maragheh observatory, that the Persians constructed for Heluga Khan, but it was in ruin a few centuries later. I believe there was one other in Baghdad and large observatory built in Turkisk conquered Constantinople but this bodes poorly for my opponent's case considering the chief Mufti ordered it's destruction in 1580. Response to #3 - Eratosthenes of Cyrene was the first to calculate the circumference of Earth, I believe you are mistaken in saying diameter, and was only of by .16 percent. He was the chief Librarian of the Library of Alexandria. I'm not aware of any Muslim calculating any distance between North & South Poles much less being aware of them. I would challenge my opponent to substantiate this claim. Response to #4 - Hippocrates, Galen and Sushruta would negate the claim that Muslims were the first to make medicines and their works were translated into Arabic. It is absurd to conflate medieval medicine with modern medicine, which is light years ahead. Ibn Sina, you forget to mention, was completely baffled the Metaphysics of Aristotle and couldn't understand it until he read a commentary on it. The work exponded on the works of Hippocrates and others, but I will not deny that at the time it would be a work to be lauded. It is worth pointing out here Abu Hamid al-Ghazali in his The Incoherence of the Philosophers attacking falasifa (such as Avicenna and Al-Farabi) who drew on the works of ancient Greeks and others. He denounced the ancient Greeks as non-believers and corruptors of the Islam. Today, the United States alone has developed half of the world's new medicines over the past 30-36 years and aside from the nation of Israel, no country in the Islamic World is making contributions to modern medicine which in part explains the great propaganda effort to point to medieval medicine. Response to #5 - The Qu'ran does say the earth is flat and does so repeatedly (S. 15:19, S. 20:53, S. 43:10, etc.). The earth would have to be flat for Qiblah to make any sense otherwise when prayers would face out in to space, not Meeca. The fact Muhammad spent 13 years in Meeca making Qiblah to Jerusalem should cause people to pause and seriously question the prophethood of Muhammad. Response to #6 - What about the Coccyx? It is no different than any other bone and it doesn't decay any differently. Response to #7 - A zygote is a single diploid cell that becomes a blastocyst so how my opponent can claim Modern science proves it is blood to me demonstrates the absurd desparation and strains to make frivolous claims regarding the Qu'ran conform with modern scientific knowledge. Response to #8 - Estuaries are classified based on and there are about five different types. I would simply suggest you just try learning about them. Response to #9 - Islam was spread by the sword by Islamic Ghazis and this is an undeniable historical fact of the 7th century and up. You mention France, but surely you could do some research and discover that upon conquering Spain, the Muslims pushed into what we call France and were defeated by Charles Martel. What about the Rashidun conquests; the conquest of Syria in 637, the conquest of Armenia in 639, the conquest of Egypt in 639, the conquest of North Africa in 652, and the conquest of Cyprus in 654? Why does your video ignore the Umayyads and their conquests; conquest of North Africa in 665, first Arab siege of Constantinople in 674"678, the second Arab siege of Constantinople in 717"718, the Conquest of Hispania in 711"718, and the conquest of Georgia in 736? How about the conquest of Crete in 820 or the conquest of southern Italy in 827? How about the conquests of Persia and Mesopotamia from 633"651, the conquest of Transoxiana from 662"751, the conquest of Sindh from 664"712, the conquest of Septimania from 719"720, or attempts to Conquer the Caucasus from 711"750? Also, what about the Islamic conquests of of Nubia from 700"1606, incursions into southern Italy from 831"902, or the conquest of Anatolia from 1060"1360? The Hindu Majapahit Empire fell to the Islamized Sultanate of Demak would be the most obvious answer about Indonesia. As for the spread in the West, this is being done through Hijrah. Response to #10 - This is just fantasy on the part of Muslims and explains the appeal of ISIS in the desire for a Caliphate. Japan and South Korea would be two examples of the nonsense of claiming the British "separated" Islamic countries therefore this is why when the more obvious answer is the retardation of Islam on these countries. Response to #11 - You can disagree all you want but your contention would fail. Response to #12 - This is our point about the Muslims that today have to travel back in time 800 years or more to lay claim to scientific achievement. Can you please provide some evidence regarding the Greeks?