Joseph Brant was like <span>associated with </span>Great Britain<span> during and after the </span>American Revolution<span>. Look him up and do some research. It's not that hard to do research, you can't expect others to do it for you. :)</span>
Of course Islam encourages and supports the development and creativity if you read the holy Quran you will see a lot of verses that we must think to understand the world around us. The miracle of the Quran was in the science that it introduces. Every day we saw and understand the miracles in the Quran. Islam is the religion of science and we know that the muslim who offers what serves humanity not only muslims will has the greatest reward from Allah. The problem not in Islam it's in the modern muslims.
The black death occurred during the 1340's