@ somebozo
THIS IS JUST BEYOND YOUR LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING, SO I WON'T BLAME YOU.
Science like everything else is "non-religious".
the more we emphasize, Muslimness in science, the dumber we'll get.
It is that simple.
Quran is a holy book of morals and lessons based on stories of the ancient times. It is not a book on biology, or mathematics, or chemistry.
Muslims educated elite are so ignorant they keep on bringing Quran in discussion on science.
Science is when you make your mind free of everything.
You forget about everything else even God, and focus on just a small point in science that you want to work on.
That's it.
That's when God comes and helps you.
That's when
"Khuda Bunday say khud poochay"
" Bata teri Raza Kiya hai"
peace
How do you explain the
Muslim success in every field of science, literature and humanities for a thousand plus years?
How can one forget about everything else
even God, and focus on just a small point in science that he wants to work on ? While science is about the laws of nature set by GOD himself.
So, by concentrating on science, you already acknowledge the existence of GOD, you like it or not .That's when God comes and helps you to further open you eyes.
Muslim scientists who are close to religion, can see the links very clearly by following the advice of the creator to his creation; in the Koran the emphasis on the word science is so much prominent that one has to be or pretend to be blind not to see it.
One has just to find an equilibrium in his life between his religious duties (obligations & rights) and his earthly life (obligations & rights), in order to see the missing link, and not to confuse them, since they both are compatible with high self esteem based on higher sense of ethics.
To sum it up, one does not have to put religion aside to be able to advance in sciences, but if his religion blinds him and shuts his brains, than your advice is better than mine.
We all know that most westerners do not follow any religion, that Hindus are polytheists (they might still argue with that!), that very few Jews are really religious and all they study is the Talmud. But for the Muslims, the message that came with the prophet was to not follow those religions, and mainly because the people who appropriated them for themselves were attempting by all means to control the minds of their followers and hence discourage them from seeking high levels of knowledge in order to keep them under the control of the few religious elite (ignorants themselves).
History is the proof of what I am saying, be it in Europe or in Asia or elsewhere.
Islam was than the real intellectual, cultural and scientific revolution that has changed the modern world, historical facts are witnesses to this advent.