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Google has an interesting function, for which I am not sure of the reason. I live and work in Austria, so my computer has Austrian settings. When I type in www.google.com it takes me to www.google.at whether I like it or not. During a recent trip to China I found typing in google pulls up www.google.cn (or zh, I forget).
Since a google listing is placed closer to the beginning based on the number of hits and the underlying design of the webpage, what you find on "page one" of a google search is unfortunately no measure of the accuracy of that page's contents. When I type "scientist" into the Austrian google.at, I get a different list than my American colleagues, one based on Austrian hit-rates, just as my Chinese colleagues get a different list than I, when they search for "Wissenschaftler" on google.cn.
Try going to www.google.at from anywhere outside Austria... you will find yourself re-routed home again.
Not only are there different googles where to search, there are different languages with which to search:
العالم (Arabic for scientist)
(Hindi for scientist)
科學家 科学家 kē xué jiā (Chinese for scientist)
by cutting and pasting the 1st word in google.at, I found:
http://vm.nthu.edu.tw/science/hall/index.html
>>> Take a look! It is a webpage full of Chinese scientists, written in Chinese.
Wendy Coones
wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Center for Image Science
Danube University Krems, Austria
>>> Nancy VanBeek <[log in to unmask]> 03.01.2007 15:47 >>>
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"I'm not sure how one quantifies data to arrive at a conclusion that
"Christians and governments that allowed Christianity have made the
scientific discoveries that we base much of our science theories on
today,""
One way would be to Google the words Scientists, Inventors or
Mathematicians. The overwhelming majority of names belong to science
explorers to meet the above criteria.
Nancy Van Beek
KSDC Education Manager
Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science
301 S. Main Ave
Sioux Falls SD 57104
(605) 367-7397 ext 2374
www.washingtonpavilion.org
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday
is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow" Robert Goddard
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I'm not sure how one quantifies data to arrive at a conclusion that
"Christians and governments that allowed Christianity have made the
scientific discoveries that we base much of our science theories on
today," but I think Galileo and Copernicus might disagree. Many
Muslims and Buddhists and Taoists and Hindus might say the same
thing, swapping their religion for "Christian."
The list at the other end of Martin's link has only one (broken) link
and no other mention of the oft-cited and absolutely essential
contributions of Islamic cultures to mathematics. You can google
"islam mathematics" or read about it on the wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_mathematics
The list practically skips Asian cultures altogether. Joseph Needham
wrote the classic seven volume "Science and Civilisation in China," a
compendium of his life research on Chinese discovery and invention.
http://www.nri.org.uk/science.html
Jason
On Jan 2, 2007, at 1:25 PM, martin weiss wrote:
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> Nancy;
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> Read: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/science/sciencesbook.html#Islam
>
> to understand that western religious thought is not the basis of
> scientific discoveries.
>
>
> Martin
>
>>
>>
>>
>> One last note, as a science educator, science history shows
>> Christians
>> and governments that allowed Christianity have made the scientific
>> discoveries that we base much of our science theories and concepts on
>> today. As a Christian, I figure if God gives people the right to
>> choose
>> him or not choose him, so should I.
>>
>>
>> Nancy Van Beek
>> KSDC Education Manager
>> Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science
>> 301 S. Main Ave
>> Sioux Falls SD 57104
>> (605) 367-7397 ext 2374
>> www.washingtonpavilion.org
>>
>> "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of
>> yesterday
>> is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow" Robert Goddard
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