bro...
science quite often doubts itself...
there are so many unanswered q's in science...and in the world which science fails to answer..and wehn it does, they are only theories by random men...and get renewed when a better expalination is found...
hope u get what im trying to say...no offense...u can believe...but u shud have doubts in something like science.....
The physical part is a bit of a stretch, mainly because when you devle deep into the meanings of the ayats and try to understand them within the context, there comes a time when you have to apply your own interpretation to it. I have three printed copies of the quran that give three different translations of the same verses, and if I were to apply the common theory about the meaning of the verse than the other two translations do not support it. That is not to say that the translations themselves are wrong, but it is far more likely that the interpretation that has become commonly accepted could be wrong, because there is an inherrent bias for good muslims unify the concepts which have been made apparent by science with what has been revealed the sacred texts.
Science does not ask you to beleive, or have faith, or make interpretations because if you are wrong then you will surely find out through your observations.
Religion asks for your faith, your belief, because you have no way of observing the effects of your theories or your interpretations, but there is a chance you may find out when you die. At that point however, you taken your chance, and you have no way to rectify your situation because of your misunderstanding.
Scientific theories allow for you to test your hypothesis, and rectify your position. Perhaps a past generation is wrong, but the furute generations have that theory to build upon, and even know which ones are/were incorrect. Faith and belief does not allow for that.
Faylasufs of the ninth century made great efforts to live rationally and in accordance with the natural laws they believed were part and parcel of the holy book. When the study of natural science lead to many dead ends they turned to greek metaphysics and an era of falsafah began in which many muslims were dedicated to proper philosophical reasoning.
Yes, this was the era in which muslims made a great many scientific discoveries, however this was to be science in the pursuit of religion. In Aristotelian terms it was a good for the sake of another good, and not a good in and of itself. To truly be a scientist or philosopher one must abandon all that he/she has been "learned" and be prepared to prove everything of its own accord. While the Faylasufs believed that rationalism represented the most advanced form of religion, they could not escape the fact that a rationalized god is a higher notion of the that has been revealed in scripture.
I'm sorry friends, but if you have not researched the past then it may comes as a shock that generations as much as a millennia past could not reconcile scientific reasoning and the scripture much less the current generations in which many scholars exist with the same religion and a far more advanced science.
I'd also like to nitpick a bit, science does not doubt itself as it itself is not an entity. Only sentient beings such as humans can have or cast doubt. Perhaps a matter of linguistics, but I must make the correction for the debate itself to have any value.
Science cannot contradict itself, as with science there must be a single clear explanation if it is to hold true. However, as we saw in the early 20th century, Einstein modified newton's theory to build his own (more accurate) theory. It is not to say he contradicted science, or that science contradicted itself, but that the certain laws were applicable based on the observations available, and that in the advent of human advancements in technology we were able to realize that there are slightly more correct theories. It had no direct affect on my life, as newton's laws were enough, but surely we have all benefited from his work.
. I've grown up i guess.
