Science, apricots, and the sacredness of nature.(Shadhrah 5)

From: Islam & Science | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Islamic scientific tradition is now a non-existent entity, at least in the concrete and physical realm of laboratories. No laboratory in the contemporary world pursues scientific activity anchored in a conceptual framework different from the one that emerged in the West after Bacon. No longer are men and women engaged in pursuit of knowledge of the physical universe conceived as a cosmos inalienably linked to an unchanging, permanent, and absolute Truth. Today, the distinction between a research laboratory located in Massachusetts and one situated in the Hijaz is merely that of ...

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