02574nam a22002297a 4500 OSt 20230525091434.0 230525b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781848855182 DLC DLC DLC BP 190.5.S3 G84 2011 Guessoum, Nidhal. 55141 Islam's quantum question : reconciling Muslim tradition and modern Science Nidhal Guessoum. London : New York : I.B. Tauris, c2011. xxvi, 403 p.; Includes bibliography and index. Allah/God, philosophy and modern science -- The Qurʼan and its philosophy of knowledge/science -- Science and its critics -- Can one develop an 'Islamic science?' -- Iʻjaz: modern science in the Qurʼan? -- Islam and cosmology -- Islam and design -- Islam and the anthropic principle: was the universe created for man? -- Islam and evolution (human and biological) -- Islam and science ... tomorrow. In secular Europe the veracity of modern science is almost always taken for granted. Whether they think of Darwin's theory of evolution, or of spectacular investigations into the boundaries of particle physics conducted by CERN's Large Hadron Collider, most people assume that scientific enquiry goes to the heart of fundamental truths about the universe. Yet elsewhere, science is under siege. In the USA, Christian fundamentalists contest whether evolution should be taught in schools at all. And in Muslim countries like Egypt, Pakistan and Malaysia, a mere fifteen percent of those recently surveyed believed Darwin's ideas to be 'true' or 'probably true'. This thoughtful and passionately argued book contends absolutely to the contrary: not only that evolutionary theory does not contradict core Muslim beliefs, but that many scholars, from Islam's golden age to the present, adopted a worldview that accepted evolution as a given. Guessoum suggests that the Islamic world, just like the Christian, needs to take scientific questions with the utmost seriousness if it is to recover its true heritage and integrity. Islam's 'quantum question', he argues, can be answered by a credible harmonization of Qur'anic belief and scientific truth. In its application of a specifically Muslim perspective to important topics like cosmology, divine action and natural selection, Islam's Quantum Question makes a vital contribution to debate in the disputed field of 'science and religion'. Islam and Science. 55142 Religion and Science. 55143 lcc BK 67634 67608 0 0 lcc 0 0 GEN CPL CPL GEN 2018-01-31 Donation - TBN 30.00 0 BP 190.5.S3G84 2011 T16734W3232 2023-05-25 00:00:00 1 2023-05-25 BK