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020			_a9781848855182
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050			_aBP 190.5.S3 _bG84 2011
100			_aGuessoum, Nidhal. _955141
245			_aIslam's quantum question : _breconciling Muslim tradition and modern Science _cNidhal Guessoum.
260			_aLondon : _aNew York : _bI.B. Tauris, _cc2011.
300			_axxvi, 403 p.;
504			_aIncludes bibliography and index.
505			_aAllah/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.
520			_aIn 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'.
650			_aIslam and Science. _955142
650			_aReligion and Science. _955143
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