Re: Can we define God by the way of science?
I agree.
And its not only just the English translation. Biggest road block is general human understanding of Quran. The book is so deep and vast in its meaning, that we are still trying to understand it - otherwise, there was never a need of thousands of tafaseer that has been written, and many are still in the process of being authored. That is why, whenever Science and Quran clashed, majority of the times, it was human interpretation of the Quran that clashed with the science and not the Quran itself. We humans are the weakest link in the chain that is trying to connect these two opposite ends.
One mistake that we made is that our Aalims stayed away from science. An aalim turning into scientist is more capable of bridging the gap between science and religion, than a scientist turning into an Aalim. I was watching a documentary called “Proving the God” and was amazed to learn that Vatican has its own astronomical division and their very own observatory. Their director is a qualified priest who is also a PhD in Astrophysics. Now that is what I call some serous effort to answer the question that the title of this thread is asking. I just wish that we can open up to such efforts in our own religion.
Probably the only serious work that was ever done to gap Islam and Science was done by Doctor Abdus Salam (unfortunately we dont give him much recognition, because of the controversial Ahmedi issue). It was said (and I have to verify this), that he got a lead from an Ayat of Quran , when he was trying to solve his weak particle unification theory (which later led him to get a noble prize). Walahu Alam