{"id":68,"date":"2012-02-19T14:25:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T08:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ckraju.net\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2012-02-19T14:25:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T08:55:16","slug":"islam-and-science-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Islam and science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another way to see the religious bias in present-day science (see previous post<\/a>) \u00a0is to look at the way it is used to attack Islam. (Note: specifically science vs Islam, not science vs “religion”.)\u00a0 See\u00a0my paper on “Islam and Science”<\/a>\u00a0Indian Journal of Secularism<\/em>, 15<\/strong>(2), 2011, pp. 14-29.<\/p>\n

For example, consider the claim that Islam is anti-science because it does not believe in “laws of nature” or “laws of physics”.\u00a0\u00a0As my paper explains, belief in “laws of nature” is part of the post-Crusade theology of Aquinas; it is no part of science. Newton himself believed that theology and thought that he was a prophet to whom God had revealed those laws. (He also thought he was born on 25 December.)\u00a0 So, here we have a simple situation where science is pro-church\u00a0but anti-Islam (as in Hawking’s singularities which support the church doctrine of creation against Islam).<\/p>\n

It is true that people are still taught “Newton’s laws of physics” in school. But that is bad terminology which spreads\u00a0church indoctrination.\u00a0Because colonial education\u00a0blindly imitates\u00a0the West, this\u00a0propaganda is still propagated through science teaching in schools which should have changed\u00a0that long ago. Newton’s “laws” have proved to be false, and science cannot ever lay claim to any\u00a0eternal truth. Science only constructs fallible models.<\/p>\n

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Another way to see the religious bias in present-day science (see previous post) \u00a0is to look at the way it is used to attack Islam. (Note: specifically science vs Islam, not science vs “religion”.)\u00a0 See\u00a0my paper on “Islam and Science”\u00a0Indian Journal of Secularism, 15(2), 2011, pp. 14-29. For example, consider the claim that Islam is anti-science because it does not believe in “laws of nature” or “laws of physics”.\u00a0\u00a0As my paper explains, belief in “laws of nature” is part of the post-Crusade theology of Aquinas; it is no part of science. Newton himself believed that theology and thought that he was a prophet to whom God had revealed those laws. (He also thought he was born on 25 December.)\u00a0 So, here we have a simple situation where science is pro-church\u00a0but anti-Islam (as in Hawking’s singularities which support the church doctrine of creation against Islam). It is true that people are still taught “Newton’s laws of physics” in school. But that is bad terminology which spreads\u00a0church indoctrination.\u00a0Because colonial education\u00a0blindly imitates\u00a0the West, this\u00a0propaganda is still propagated through science teaching in schools which should have changed\u00a0that long ago. Newton’s “laws” have proved to be false, and science cannot ever lay claim to any\u00a0eternal truth. Science only constructs fallible models. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-physics","category-science-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}