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'We're reading God's signs in the world'



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Published Date: 16 April 2008
By CRAIG BROWN
In a lecture tomorrow at St Andrews University, Dr Bruno Guiderdoni will explain why science and the Koran are not irreconcilable, writes CRAIG BROWN
IT IS a little known fact that one of the first schemes of evolution, in some ways similar to Darwin’s, was proposed at the main Mosque of Basra during the 8th and 9th centuries. Abu ’Uthman ’Amr (known as “al-Jahiz”) was part of a group of young peo...



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  • Last Updated: 15 April 2008 6:49 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
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Calum Crubag,

16/04/2008 09:02:14
There is no god... simple as that. Yes, many intelligent people, from the Greek and Roman philosophers onwards, have believed in all sorts of 'gods' but surely in 2008, we should be leaving this superstition behind us? How many people could truely live by the Bible or Koran today?
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zeno,

www.thinkhumanism.com 16/04/2008 22:00:40
If a conflict is seen between the Koran and science, then it is the Koran that must change. If the Koran has to be 're-interpreted' or passages now declared 'symbolic' to match our increasing knowledge of the Universe then so be it. But the one that wins is the one based on evidence, not on ancient discredited texts.

 

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