However, it was during the eighties that the apologetic expression of this movement was born. Hamza Andreas Tzortzis is a British Muslim public speaker of Greek descent and researcher on Islam..
To put it simply, scientism claims that a statement is not true if it cannot be scientifically proven. Then a probability analysis of the verse must be performed.
1984, pp. The science that the verse is eluding to must be as close to a fact as possible, in other words it must not be a working in progress theory. I know that the copperhead is the most common venomous snake in the greater Houston area.
From the word go both leech and embryo are out for themselves.”[60]. [33] Shabbir Akhtar. So rather than giving us the answers, the Qur’ān encourages us to look for them ourselves.
This is because saqfan maḥfūẓan can also refer to a physical roof. Apologies for the inconvenience. Hamza is one of the main initiators of the contemporary emergence of Muslim public debaters and speakers using western and Islamic philosophy to defend and explain Islam. Since the eighties there has been a growing movement of Muslim academics and apologists using science to establish the miraculous and Divine nature of the Qur’ānic discourse.
Therefore, there must be an independent and eternal Being. He claimed that the Qur’ān did not predate modern scientific conclusions in the field. The way they are fashioned testifies to the uniqueness of His handiwork and astounding wisdom. He is particularly interested in Islam, politics, western and Islamic thought and philosophy. II. How could scientific miracles be established? Islam's Response to Evil and Suffering, Know God, Know Good: God & Objective Morality. In order for a verse in the Qur’ān to be a scientific miracle it would mean that the meaning attributed to a verse or word is definitive and absolute.
The Qur’ān uses the words saqfan maḥfūẓan, which means a protect roof.[14]. Brill Online, 2013. I.
For example, in permitting intercourse with one’s suckling wife the Prophet (upon whom be peace) took into consideration the practices of the Romans and Persians. In similar light, professor of philosophy Shabbir Akhtar in his book The Qur’ān and the Secular Mind: A Philosophy of Islam explains that the purpose of the Qur’ānic verses that allude to the natural world is to point to a hidden immaterial order: “Nature’s flawless harmonies and the delights and liabilities of our human environment, with its diverse and delicate relationships, are invested with religious significance. @2019 - Hamza Andreas Tzortzis. Induction: Induction is a thinking process where one makes conclusions by moving from the particular to the general. Science is dynamic and therefore changes over time. If other meanings are available then it would be more rational to take the unscientific or crude meanings over the meanings that imply miraculousness. The Qur’ān allows multiple and multi-level meanings. The reason I am including unscientific verses here is to highlight the inconsistency of the scientific miracles in the Qur’ān methodology. Hamza Andreas Tzortzis is the author of The Divine Reality: God, Islam & The Mirage of Atheism. He has a master’s and a postgraduate certificate in philosophy from the University of London. For example love, beauty, right and wrong. This knowledge was already available via the ancient Hebrews as the Old Testament explicitly mentions the roots of the mountains: “To the roots (לְקִצְבֵי) of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. Figure 2: Internal Structure of a Leech compared to the Embryo. Note that the separation takes the form of a cataclysm.”[28], In Sumerian literature we find similar concepts in the Epic of Gilgamesh: “When the heavens had been separated from the earth, when the earth had been delimited from the heavens, when the fame of mankind had been established.”[29]. [An intentionally unsophisticated meaning is possible so that the Qur’ān’s direct audience could appreciate it. Truth. (From J.G. Further exploring Sober’s example, imagine you observe a white cat walking outside of a house towards the direction of an oncoming snowstorm; you can see the cat walking up to the snowstorm and then you can no longer see the cat. Alan Alford, who is an independent researcher and author, writes about Egyptian views on the creation of the universe: “This is the myth of the separation of the heavens from the earth. In our engagement with others, we should remember that we as humans are mostly comforted by similar things — displays of kindness and mercy. ", "ISIS are spiritually diseased, sick people: Hamza Tzortzis, UK preacher named in NIA charges", "Keele University cancels visit from radical Islamic speaker Hamza Tzortzis", "Islamic preacher 'named' on the leaked list of Ashley Madison members", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hamza_Tzortzis&oldid=981500101, Articles lacking reliable references from August 2016, Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected pages, Wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from May 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 2 October 2020, at 17:59. The verse itself may be pertaining to non-physical things, such as the unseen, spiritual or existential realities.
2008, page 217. This point will be explained later in this essay. I’d love to hear from you! They have responded by weakening their definition for empiricism by redefining empiricism to the view that we can only know something if it is confirmed or supported by sensory experience – I shall call this weak empiricism. 4. Throughout the convention we had a stall outside the venue and as a result positively engaged with hundreds of atheists, including the popular atheist academics Professor P. Z. Myers and Professor Richard Dawkins.
To claim that there is anything scientifically miraculous about a particular Qur’ānic verse is incoherent.
The new approach is based on the following axioms and principles: Mustansir Mir, Professor of Islamic Studies at Youngstown State University, argues for a similar approach. [23] The Doxographists on Anaxagoras, Hipp. The entire scientific miracles narrative seems to ignore or overlook the main theological objectives for these verses. Does that make the ancient civilisations Divinely inspired? Sapience Institute is officially launching with a series of more than 35 free in-depth webinars to provide a compelling, convincing case for Islam and to empower and educate you to share the faith academically. Zygon, 46: 793–805.
In light of the above, to claim that these verses are miraculous is farfetched and does not take into account the possibility of the Prophet Muhammad (upon whom be peace) accessing the common knowledge of the time from other cultures, and it does not consider the fact that earlier civilisations made similar statements. This is an interesting aspect of the Qur’ān, it seems to be able to address various times and different levels of understanding. Click here or the icon to get started. Divine Link: The Argument from Dependency, 6. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, p. 108. In light of history this is not true, at around 500BC, 1200 years before the Qur’ānic revelation, Thales said: “The moon is lighted from the sun.”[22] Anaxagoras, in 400-500BC asserted that: “The moon does not have its own light, but light from the sun.”[23], The Mountains Have Roots “Miracle”: Consider the verses speaking about mountains having pegs or roots. We received innumerable amounts of emails by Muslims and non-Muslims. From an empirical or scientific perspective these verses can also provide intellectual stimuli to encourage the listener or reader to look into the interconnecting principles of nature, and to explore the inner dimensions of reality. The Qur’ānic verses where revealed at a time where science was primitive and no human could have uttered the truths mentioned in the Qur’ān, therefore it must be from God.
The word leech can also imply that when we were embryos we drained our mothers resources, just like a leech does, so we should love our mothers more and lower the wing of mercy and humility because they willingly sacrificed for us. Our understanding of natural phenomena and science changes and improves with time. Since A and B share the common category C, it doesn’t follow that A is the same as B. [45] Therefore, one of the key questions it tries to answer is “how we successfully acquire justified belief or knowledge on the basis of what other people tell us.”[46]. Daily prayers and Jummah prayer are open.
[46] The Epistemology of Testimony. This movement has classical and modern origins. Available Now: Newly Edition of The Divine Reality, Has Science Disproved God? 1. Since the Qur’ān argues that the universe had a beginning, does that mean the Qur’ān must have been rejected by Muslims living in the 19th century? The scientific miracles of the Qur’ān are expressed in different ways but with the same philosophical implications. Therefore, in the eyes of the sceptic, it is not impossible that he could have accessed other scientific knowledge that was popularised at the time. You can contact me here or follow me on Twitter @hatzortzis, Instagram @hatzortzis and Facebook @hamzaandreastzortzis. 2006, p. 158. [37] David Hume. But the proposition itself cannot be scientifically proven! Islam's Response to Evil and Suffering, 8. 2006, p. 2.
Andreas Tzortzis. From a rational point of view, if a plausible naturalistic explanation is available then that explanation will be adopted over a supernatural one. He started observing the sheep and recorded what colour they were. Send message via your Messenger App.
Paladin. Jalees Rehman, a cardiology fellow at Indiana University School of Medicine, aptly and concisely articulates a major problem with the scientific miracles narrative. Appropriate for our time: The word ᶜalaqah also refers to a worm or a leech. This raises the perspective that we are not truly independent, self-sufficient or free, as in our very development in the womb we are dependent on our mothers. I know that, as I write, the average price for gasoline in the U.S is $4.10 per gallon. Notwithstanding our common usage, political slogans and personal feelings, and taking into consideration the real world consequences of the word, we need to unpack the idea of freedom and analyse it philosophically. Community.. (484) 928-0475, 2490 General Armistead Ave., Suite 304, West Norriton, PA 19403. A common frequently asked question that pops up in theist-atheist discussions is: ‘Who created God?’. Therefore a new approach is needed to overcome to this intellectual obstacle, something which I will address later. Atoms, molecules, electrons, photons and the like are highly complex theoretical constructs…here we seem to be very far removed from the world of direct ‘empirical observation’…The positivists tended to respond to this difficulty by weakening their criterion for meaningfulness…it was proposed that a statement was meaningful if it could be confirmed or supported by sensory experience. [3][5] He has spoken in the United Kingdom and Australia. This new narrative will be able to withstand scientific criticism while bringing to light the timeless nature of the Qur’ānic discourse.
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