Stephen Hawking enjoyed a jet trip to a weightless state. He said it was one of the highlights of his life and he wants to travel into space.
Stephen Hawking’s new book The Grand Design was launched recently and I watched him interviewed several times along with this co-author, Leonard Mlodinow. The American Public was focused on the 9th anniversary of 9/11 and the burning of Qurans. In all this uproar I thought: I wonder what Islam thinks of modern physics and Stephen Hawkings’ ground-breaking theories based on the discipline? We have what seems a clash of cultures that cannot be resolved – but is science more neutral? I soon discovered otherwise:
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From the Rise of Modern Physics: Islam, China and the West.
I had to get out a blog post providing some direction for study of the subject for me and others, I did not have time to take a class. Initially, I sought brief articles or transcripts of lectures. I found one of each that proved helpful:
I read a short article by Dallas M. Roark whose lectures are featured on a website Answering Islam at http://www.answering-islam.org/index.htm. The article in particular that was of help to me, “Science and Islam,” located at http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Roark/science_islam.htm.
I found an excellent source in a lecture, Islam and Modern Science, by Seyyid Hossein Nasr posted at the website for the MIT Muslim Student Association URL
http://msa.mit.edu/archives/nasrspeech1.html
It is my hope these titles will launch us into further investigations. It helped me get to another dimension in the web of issues that separate the West and Islam. It is not simple; it is not easy and the issues will not soon, if ever, be resolved.
It is noteworthy that Deepak Chopra, a Muslim, is about to research and produce a book with Hawkings’ co-author, Leonard Mlodinow. This will be a work to anticipate.
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DarcsFalcon
September 17, 2010
What are you searching for in your studies, dear? What’s prompted your fascination?
samhenry
September 17, 2010
I was looking for how the Muslim world would react to Hawking’s theory that God was not involved in the creation of the Universe. The laws of nature – physics – prove the multiple universes we have discovered are self-creating. However, he does not say there is no God, just that the creation of this and the innumerable galaxies out there were self-creating. In the Muslim world, God is definitely involved. However, in order to carry out their adherence to the Muslim belief that the unbelievers should be killed, they develop nuclear capability based on science which they otherwise have no use for.