Re: The similarity of scienctific method and faith
This seems to agree with what I said that we have given science a purpose in pursuit of course of nature though the fallacy in the argument is that nature is not about the survival of the fittest.
Out nufs is the disposition which forms part of the survival of the fittest theory. When we let it run amok as you said it becomes our hedonistic personality rather than purpose.
Veracious.
I like the cause and effect assertion because it blends so well with predestination and fate in Islam.
If taken as a simple creation event, then the cause would be Gods will to create it. Though the event s per Quran happened in stages or progressed in stages.
The second point is possible though contradictory to what even we know from religious scriptures of our own, six periods is what we know. Though those six periods may be relative to the millions and billions of years science predicts.
^ Yes that is how I feel it fits best. With the religious scripture from Abrahamic sources we can see there are stages. (Not that it was needed to but it was Chosen to be done that way), and science allows us to understand this in terms of our common terms of disposal.
The religious intent behind Sustainer is one that maintains the moment as though everything is constantly being created and destroyed like a film strip may be, except the slides are not 2D and they are much closer together in time and the scope is the whole universe. If nothing Sustained the created we would cease. Science cannot arrive at this conclusion, nor can it negate it.
As far as science is concerned one thing causes the other. Just imagine if that was not the case. We would have to supplicate for every action we wanted to take. Any way I digress.
We have given science a purpose it is for us to understand us. It is this desire to understand ourselves that gives us our purpose as an after affect according to the secular scientists point of view. In this regard science has failed humanity so far in providing a vision. So it may appear that evolution is the atheistic scientists way of expressing faith. Like religion we put Justice as a thing obtained in the Hereafter, likewise such scientists put the fathoming of complete knowledge about our existence and development of mankind as a point somewhere in the future. These are both elements of faith. So far however the atheistic evolutionists seem to feel that we are here to survive because everything else seems to try to want to do that. At least the ones I have spoken to say this, there may be others who say otherwise ... perhaps you can add a few things to this and summarise again ... wassalam for now.
