Myth of Qur'an and Science

Mohammed al-Amrani

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We will show them Our signs in all the regions of the earth and in their own souls until "
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Clearly see that this is the truth." (41: 53)
Muslim scholars, scientists and students who are dealing with the subject of Quran and
science or sunnah and science ought to be careful. It is futile, as a rule, to extrapolate
human scientific knowledge on the Quranic verses inasmuch as human knowledge is at
best hypotheses based on many assumptions. Karl Popper said science may be
described as the art of systematic over-simplification. Though the Quran contains clear
signs and clues of scientific nature, it is not a book of science and was not intended to be
and the scientific community is largely repugnant to theological indications of scientific
nature. The fitnah of science has reached its zenith in the 20th century, and though it
helped some scientists go back to Allah (SW), the masses in the west at least, have
realized that the Allah (SW) of science is a flip-flop and lost its appeal. One ought to
be careful of the insidious spiritual and scientific defeat before the western culture which
actuate some to run after every discovery to find its parallel or indication in the Quran or
sunnah. The conflict between the Church and science ushered in the 15th century is still
raging in the west and Muslims ought not repeat the devastating mistake of the Church
which adopted the Ptolemic geography and model of the universe and eventually led to
that pathetic chasm between science and the church in the west.
Below will briefly review the status of the world we are living in a satirical questioning in
a bid to show that neither science, nor philosophy nor the incumbent perceptions of
religions would help mankind come out of this abyss. Needless to say that human
scientific knowledge is progressive in nature and has followed a more or less linear
progression over the course of history with an evident leap in the 20th century and a
period of regression often follows. This outcome is normal inasmuch as it is in line with
the nature of human beings. Contrary to his scientific progress, mans faith has not
followed a linear progression rather an up and down periods. The Quran is clear that the
religious history of the world has been a series of faith, no faith, or dubious faith or as the
Quran calls it Jahiliyyah and Islam, then Jahiliyyah then Islam and so on. In general
people have lost faith in the Allah (SW) of science, as well as lost trust in the Allah
(SW) of philosophy and lost faith in the rotten clergy and the tens of religions? Lets

take

brief

look

at

science,

philosophy

and

religion.

What is science? Is it what Karl Popper said science may be described as the art of
systematic over-simplification. Not enough deductive reasoning? Is not the Allah (SW)
of science a flip-flop? What is hypothesized today is refuted tomorrow! Is the big bang
still valid or has been reduced to ash with the endless singularities and assumptions? Is
the Inflationary model valid or is it simple Quantum Fluctuations? How about before the
nano-second, what model should we have? Is not the background radiation, the Hubble
constant and the Helium to Hydrogen concentration enough for the big bang? But there
are the horizon, the smoothness and the flatness problem? What do the astrophysicists
think: is the universe flat or curved? Questions of cosmologists: Did the universe begin
from nothingness or from an atom or from something? What was that something? Was it
neutrons, protons and electrons? Or nothing at all. What is going on with Physicists?
Newtonian laws have collapsed or in their way to oblivion or still work in fixed space?
What theory works in large objects and massive galaxies: maybe the General Relativity?
But that does not work in the sub-atomic level: how about a quantum mechanics which at
least work when tested? Maybe a unified theory to combine all three and all forces in
one: call it String or superstring hypotheses? How far did evolutionists go with their
search for intermediate fossil records? Did they find any? Did they manage to randommutate a life of any form and cells to create a better one? Did they refute the Cambrian
explosion? Havent evolutionists had enough time to account for the origin of life? Or
still facing the same problem as Jefrey Bada confessed? Too bad the structure of the cell
was not as simple as Darwin thought. Too bad an intricate and complex and marvelous
world exist in the tiny cell. Or is it by chance again? Or as Fred Hoyle said in Nature
The chance that higher life forms might have emerged by chance is comparable with the
chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from
the materials therein. Didnt Francis Crick say the DNA molecule is more too complex
than ever envisioned and it could have never emerged by chance? Doesnt the DNA
contain information that would fill a million page yet stored in a tiny little cell the size of
a thousand millimeters? Would not all the books ever written by human kind over their
entire history be stored in a few strains of DNA? How far did the genome project go? Or
was it enough that Franciso Collins was re-born? Did they manage to create bacteria
for energy? Or for bio-war? What did the deciphering of the human 3-billion DNA script
do for humanity? Did it cure diseases?

What about philosophers? What is new with them? Is it Existentialism still or still
bounded to epistemology? Did their metaphysics come to a halt? Are they happy at the
stage of linguistics? Why are scientists in war with one another and in war with
philosophers who are in turn in war with each others? Is this all a-rage infracitidal
diseases still grip them until they destroy any rival claimant? What is going on with
astronomers? What is going on with the raging war between atheists or evolutionists and
creationists or intelligent design? Is the illusion real or the illusion of the illusion? Can
we break the spell or the totem and taboo? Hasnt the steady state model of a universe
collapse or atheists are not convinced yet? Will they throw stones at the grave of George

Gamow? Where is Darwinism which Marx, Englez, Durkium embraced with love?
Where are materialisms and the materialists? Didnt Trotsky, Lenin, Mao adopt
materialist views and were responsible for the death of millions? No good mutation is
possible in the lab? No new genetic transmission? Is not possible for a living cell to
emerge from inanimate matter? Some bond or volcano or somewhere? What happened
to their cherished accidental universe? No longer valid with the laws of probabilities and
the anthropic principle? Is not life contingent and peripheral in the universe? Where are
the Greek materialists? Where is Aristotle? Where is Hume? And the hallucinating
Nietzsche? Any new model of the universe? How about Psychologists, and NeuroPsychologists? What is new? Did they understand human nature and motives behind his
behavior? What is going on with Psychoanalyses? Anything new there? Where is Freud
and Totem and Taboo? Is not religion a mental disease? Some sort of neurosis? Or is it
fundamental to his mental health and happiness as Patrick Glynn in Allah (SW): The
Evidence claims citing results of studies and research? But havent experiments and
studies shown it is healthy? How much loneliness, depression, fear, suicide, alcoholism,
divorce, pain and suffering have to accumulate? How many millions in prisons and other
millions in mental asylums though their libidos were satiated to the full and more? Man
has no soul? Or is it a slip? Or just sexual impulses? Lets debase man to an animal
living to satisfy his selfish desires? What happened to the future of an illusion?

Have religious beliefs disappeared as man progressed? What about Skinner and his
behavior school? Are all psychologists irreligious or agnostics? Are not people in the
west miserable or as Gibbon put it long time ago: Crowds without company, dissipation
without pleasure? How about western theologians? What is happening? Still fighting
the nature of Jesus (S), his mother (S)? What is going on with original sin? Still valid?
Is the Church still willing to go down to the level of the moral and spiritual decadence of
their societies and bless gay marriages and illegitimate relations between men and
women? What is going on in their war with the thousand and so dominions? What is
happening with the economists? Any new theory to siphon and bilk the millions? And
the million and more politicians? What is new? Lies after lies! Arent they but slaves to
a gang of investors and corporations? And lets not forget the humanists? Is Huxleys
world-view of no religion still their model? Are they seeking to establish a religion-free
world? How about others? What is new with Muslims? Still producing religious sects?
Still debating whether the Quran was created or not? Sill debating whether Jihad is
valid or not and whether their rulers are Muslims or not? How far did their exegesis go?
Anything new? What about their Sufism? Are the Mystics still committing sins in order
to repent so they would taste Allah (SW)s mercy? Are they shying away from the
society in caves or dancing in circles in closed quarters? Did some annihilate and
succeeded in unifying? What about their despotic mionerrites rulers? Still slaves to the
west? How about their populace? Still unable to discern whether Islam has vanished or
still alive? And whether hijab is compulsory or not? And the Hindus? What is
happening there? Any new gold-made Krishnas? What about the Jews? Still
conspiring against the Gnome? Or is it because of their ugly bodies as Sartre in
Anti-Semitism and the Jew told us? Still feeling mankind want to destroy them? Still

feeling a broken branch of the tree of humanity? What about western thinkers and
philosophers? Has the west grown barren after the Magna Carta and the French
Revolution? Any new ideologies after Marxism, Fascism and socialism collapsed taken
with them millions of souls? Hasnt capitalism stifled and became a monarchy in the
hands of a few? Hasnt the right to speak and freedom of speech, women liberty crushed
the tired souls of human kind? Any new wars in the making?

What about globalism? How far did that go? Hasnt the World Bank and the IMF ended
up as corrupt institutions in the hands of a few capitalists? What about corporate
America and major corporations around the world? No new mergers between banks? No
plans to break the backs of the workers and throw them a few bones? Where are the
usury banks? Not enough has been accumulated? Is not it enough one percent or less of
the worlds population owe most of the wealth of the world? Where is the sold-out
media? What is it doing besides vulgar propaganda? Where are the businessmen of
prostitution, makeup and slavery? Where is the UN and its various branches? UNHCR,
UNESCO, UNDP? What is new with those? What about its so-called millina program?
Who is behind that nonsense? What about its programs to reduce poverty while it is a
major cause of poverty? Still throwing millions of tons of corn and wheat to the oceans
while millions die in hunger? Who is looking after the orphans and widows of war and
violence? What is happening in the workplace around the world? Still gossip and
intrigues? Some work others dont? Still promotion on merit of whom you know? Has
not mankind created conditions of work that make it unpleasant experiences for the
multitudes? What is happening in factories? Still the poor are buried there? What about
factories producing arms of mass destruction? Still preparing the kill-all machine? Still
planning most effective ways to kill your fellow man? What is going on with China and
its quest for world renown? Is not time for those people to dominate earth at least
economically? Or will it always be between the children of Sham?

What is going on with our children? Still playing computer games and watching
movies? Hasnt mankind drunk enough alcohol and consumed enough drugs? Is not
time to wake up from a 4-century state of intoxication? What is happening with our
women? Still imitating men? Still playing games with them? Still inventing and seeking
ways to beautify themselves for him? Still wasting times in bars, dins and malls? Still
looking for the perfect match who never existed? Still looking up to celebrities as their
models? Havent they had enough music, enough makeup, enough nakedness? Still
reading fiction non-sense? Still neglecting their duties? Not wanting the pressure of
commitment, family and children? Still seeking fun and play and cool guys? Still not
paying attention to Allah (SW) in their endless self-centered consciousness? Or have
they despaired and ended up in broken hearts and minds? No longer sure what to do and
what to believe? Still looking at the world as an ugly place of suffering and successive
falls? Has their 6th sense malfunctioned and became a curse rather than a blessing with
its unceasing quest for real meanings and hidden signs? What is going on in Hollywood

and Plywood? No more movie ideas except violence, horror and nakedness? Is the West
declining as Oswald Sptringler claimed? What do we do with the cries of Mr. Dallas for
a return to Christianity? Or the cry of Alexis Carrel in Man: The Unknown to more
science to understand man? Do we listen to Cressy Morrison in Man Doesnt Stand
Alone or to Huxley in Man in the Modern World. Should we contemplate our own
destinies as an outlet for our zeal for religion as he proposed in Religion without
Revelations or should we embrace science and live for science? Or should we seek to
restore the Queen of sciences as William Durant advised us in Mansions of
Philosophy? What does man make out of this jumble of pile? Where are the
superstitions and myths? Can we find outlet in music as Bernard Lewis proposed? Or in
chaos and anarchism as Chomsky said? Is it the end of history? Or the clash of
civilizations? Or the West Last Chance? What do we make of the In the Shades of the
Quran and Milestones? What perceptions should we have of Godhood, the universe,
man and life? Didnt we have enough genocides in Stalin Russia, Mao China, Cambodia,
Serbia, the Hutsey and Tutsey, Afghanistan and Iraq? Wasnt the Tsunami a clear sign?
More earthquakes to shake us up seem to be a necessity? What do we do with the
writings of historians and our literature? Should new Mongolians come and throw them
all in the river and burn our libraries and universities? Is not Comparative Religion a
myth or real? Was it polytheism, then ditheism and then monotheism? Where is Spinoza
and his pantheism? Arent we returning to barbarism as was evident in Abu Gharib and
the tens of Guantanamos and secret prisons spread across the world? Should we await a
WWIII in which twice as much as 50 million must die in one go? Or a series of Nagasaki
and Hiroshima? Lets blow up this planet and whoever survives can go to Andromeda or
Triangulum and start a fire there. Or return to paganism as Nietzsche told us and worship
Satans? Or we live in clubs of Skulls and Bones or re-organize in Messianic crowds. Is
not history new and historians ever refute themselves: each with his own hypotheses,
each according to his light and each to his tribe?

What do our astrologists, sorcerers, soothsayers, fortunetellers who bilk the money of the
gullible see for us? Is not astrology a pseudo-science? What do we do with the
precession issue? What does the rise of Mars in Taurus or Sagittarius have to do with
your birth? If the five planets happen to line up in the twilight then an eclipse follows
and you are born? What does that mean to you and to the millions who were born at the
same time as you? Good or bad omen? Arent we embedded in Orion-Cygnus and see
through Sagatirus-Aqulia arm to see the Milky Way bulge are we embedded in illusions
and deceptions? Is not time for the Church to announce a new Nicaea to settle its
differences? Where is Draper to see how far the conflict between religion and science
has reached? But since Nicaea is part of the territory of the losers, the Imams, mullahs,
ought to meet there and settle their endless differences? It is as Allah (SW) has said in
surah al-Maadah enmity implanted between them until judgment day and this verse is
very true. Enmity between scientists and theologians, between religious apologists and
theologians, dominion against dominions, church against church, scientists against
philosophers, and those against each others. Philosophers are all a-rage with fratricidal
mania and are never content until they have destroyed every rival claimant to the realms

and throne of truth? Dont these philosophies cancel each others out? Durant: Mansions
of Philosophy? Is evolution a mass deceit kept alive by the scientific community to veil
the fact of creation as Jonathan Wells said in Icons of Evolution? Didnt the
Biochemist Michael Behe says Over the past four decades, modern biochemistry has
uncovered the secrets of the cell. It has required tens of thousands of people to dedicate
the better parts of their lives to the tedious work of the laboratory The result of these
cumulative efforts to investigate the cell- to investigate life at the molecular level-is a
loud, clear, piercing cry of design!. The result is so unambiguous and so significant that it
must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in the history of science Instead a
curious, embarrassed silence surrounds the stark complexity of the cell. Why does the
scientific community not greedily embrace its startling discovery? Why is the observation
of design handled with intellectual gloves? The dilemma is that while one side of the
[issue] is labeled intelligent design, the other side must be labeled Allah (SW) What is
man unhappy? Why is this unique and wonderful array of 20 to 30 trillion cells some
converge together to make marvelous organs such as hearts, hearts, hands, and legs.
Inside each cell is an astonishing world of wonder. A delicate world of engineering,
technology, precision and perseverance. With 3 billion letters making his DNA script,
mans physical construction is beautiful and majestic: a magnificent art of tapestry. Each
cell is made up of tens of molecules and each molecule is made up of billions of atoms.
Inside the atom, in he sub-atomic level, is a wonderful work of a intelligence. Doesnt
the structure of the DNA molecule that incorporates genetic information threw the theory
of evolution into a great crisis?