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Author : Jeffrey Lang
that has been receiving more attention by Muslim lecturers in the West during the last two decades is the comparison of mode...
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Author : Jeffrey Lang
that has been receiving more attention by Muslim lecturers in the West during the last two decades is the comparison of modern scientific findlngs with Qur"anie references to natUral phenomena. The work of two non-Muslim scientists. bucaille and (to a lesser extent) Moore, are most often cited. However. this subject has been in vogue among Muslim writers since the turn of the twentieth century. Muslim religious scholars are somewhat wary of this topic. This may in part be due to the tact that some have little education in modern science. but also in part because they have a more critical and justifiable concern: although the Qur'an frequently invites us to consider various faccts of nature as all indieation of God's beneficence and wisdom, it' is far From being a textbook on science. I believe that many Muslim scholars of islam would agree with Schuon in that God's principal aim "is to save. not to instruct, and.His concern is with wisdom and immortality not with external knowledge, still less with satisfying human Curiosity.' Accepting this caution, we cannot deny that these references to the workings of nature are there and that they deserve consideration front the standpoint of the Qur`an as "signs" or evidences of its divine origin. There is also another reason for caution: the tendency to see the Qur'an as anticipating almost every discovery and theory of modern science, such as the splitting of the atolls, Darwinian evolution, the discovery of "black holes," and the uniqueness of fingerprints."
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