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Subjecting the texts of revelation to the authority of experimental science: a discussion with Dr. Ahmed Jalal

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Subjecting the texts of revelation to the authority of experimental science: a discussion with Dr. Ahmed Jalal

Dr. Ahmed Jalal is one of the advocates of Islam, just as Dr. Amr Sharif, we ask God to accept their effort, and guide us and them to what is different ... but one of the most difficult areas of disagreement between us and them, is to subject the texts of revelation to the authority of experimental science ...

Dr. Ahmed Jalal is one of the advocates of Islam, just as Dr. Amr Sharif, we ask God to accept their efforts, and guide us and them to what differed. But one of the most important areas of contention between us and them is the submission of the texts of revelation to the authority of experimental science. Therefore, we have a simple comment only on a sentence mentioned by the doctor in his attached publication: If there is a religious doctrine rejecting any theory, the language of science will not work, because the authority of religion is stronger regardless of the logic of its proposition. Regardless that this sentence expresses the fallacy of the "straw man", there is no Muslim, Christian or Jew who believes that any scientific theory is rejected in principle, but the whole talk about the opposition of some scientific theory to a religious concept, and here the disagreement occurs, is the Sultan of religion the strongest? Or is the Sultan of science the strongest? We will not respond or clarify our position now. But we would like to refer to a sentence by the British philosopher of language and mind (non-religious) Peter M. S. Hacker in an interview about his rejection of the reductionism practiced by neuroscientists: The presenter asked him: Can any discovery make you change your mind? The philosopher replied: Conceptual questions are not subject to the authority of confirmation or empirical negation. would there be any circumstance any discovery that would make you change your mind? Conceptual questions are not amenable to experimental confirmation or disconfirmation... The philosopher sees that his philosophy is not subject to the authority of empirical science. But some believers that there is a creator God who knows everything and is capable of everything, see that it is the revelation home from him that must be subject to the authority of empirical science. These are our biggest problems. God willing, we have to go back to other comments. — Source: Published on Facebook's "Braheen Center" page

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