Talk:Ibn al-Haytham

Religious views & Scientific progress
"Ibn al-Haytham was a devout Muslim, and his theology influenced his outlook on science. He believed that God made the world difficult to understand and that skepticism and critical analysis were the only way to illuminate God's creation. He is thus an excellent counterexample to the idea that religious belief necessarily stifles scientific thought (something many anti-religious types should remember from time to time)."
 * Isn't that an anecdotal evidence though, one that doesn't hold "see below", as far as I know many of the scientist of or near his era were considered heretics and apostates by religious scholars , another thing is that many of them didn't even believe in the basic tenets of Islam presented in the Quran and hadith.

21:09, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Another point is that maybe religious belief didn't necessarily stifle scientific thought in that era when such believes were still freshly made, so to a a degree they were conforming to the scientific views of said era , but that doesn't necessarily mean that religious belief don't necessarily stifle scientific thought in the modern era where basic knowledge of the inception of the universe and life contradicts the religious believe of major religions -"I'm mostly familiar with Abrahamic religions"- so it can be argued that true religious belief -not in a NTS way but in as defined by the direct sources of said belief- may be in direct contradiction with -to the point of stifling- modern science by it's very definition and content !