(This is a reply to a question asked in the comments section of a previous article about Creationism. Question asked was about examples of scientific research in Islamic countries in the past.) I am neither a religious scholar nor an expert on Islamic history. But I do know the word "algebra" comes from Arabic and comes to us via a book written in Islamic Persia over a thousands years ago that describes algebra (as we know it). Similarly the word "algorithm" is based on the name of an...