Science Should Be Separated From Religion: No Point in Proving Changing Scientific Theories from Quran
By Nastik Durrani, New Age Islam
October 17, 2013
Just as politics
should be disassociated with religion, similarly science too should be
distanced from it. The reason is that faiths are based on firm and
concrete textual grounds, while scientific theories and discoveries are
subject to everlasting changes and challenges. For instance, in the
ancient times people believed that the sun revolves around the earth,
but in the age of enlightenment, we came to know that the earth revolves
around the sun.
Now, in the twentieth
century, we have got to know that the earth as well as the sun revolves
around the centre of the galaxy and our galaxy along with other galaxies
revolves around a possible centre of the universe. Maybe, with more
scientific development in the future, we will get to know that our
universe is just an average universe among the other universes that
together revolve around a central cosmic system. Scientists have started
calling it “the multi-verse” (or meta-universe). Now the people who
extract science from religion and declare religion and science as
compatible with each other will surely attempt to modify their religious
interpretations in accordance with this theory, as they often do. Thus,
they not only lose their credibility but also cause a grave defamation
of their religions. Any religion that keeps changing its versions and
interpretations with every new-born scientific theory can only be a
laughing stock of the world, not a system of faith.
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