Beyond Faith and Science
Contributors: Creation and the Cosmos ( published by Kakoli Prakashoni, Dhaka, Bangladesh); Mahakal Shayare (in Bengali) (published by Shama Q.Chowdhury, Dhaka, Bangladesh); Under the Shade of the Setting Sun the story of a life from East to the West (published by Boipatra, 38/4 Banglabazar, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Publisher: Ms. Shama Q. Chowdhury, House No. 26, Road No.104, Gulshan-2, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Published: March 18, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Textbook Binding
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9789843108425
First sentence: The persuasive intelligence of human mind does not rest until it gets an answer to all the questions it raises within. Nature is an all-encompassing environment that we see and are part of; by definition it is the universe and its phenomenon.  Through the ages the inquisitive mind has sought answer to all the questions of cosmic evolution. In the beginning the earth was flat to our conception, then with exploration it became round, with scientific progress we assigned a spin to it explaining that the rotation takes the sun out of our vision creating night from the day and day from the night.
Description: A Summary of the presentation  " Beyond  Faith and Science":   Science is the pursuit of understand and discovering the mysteries of nature; and technology utilizes this knowledge for our worldly benefits. When we say all living beings are created by God - a scientist tries to discover the natural truth behind the complexity of its creation, propagation and survival. Faith on the other hand accepts all that as the creation by Creator Himself. An established natural process thus reveals itself as a miracle of creation and Nature itself becomes the manifestation of Creator and we discover the Design in the Might and Benevolence in all that we see and perceive with our senses. Beyond Faith and Science traces our cosmic creation from the point zero bringing out the known scientific facts and arguments behind all of creation, and tries to discover the purpose of placing the genius of human intelligence as an observer to make it all possible in the design of  God's Creation.     
Cosmic creation  ex-nihilo with its scientific and religious basis and its formation in two stages is realized by the creation of micro- cosmic black ball, followed by a silent big bang. Expansion of the universe with the later developments of galaxies, planets and life carrying animals ending with human beings are well established. Religious and scientific developments, establishing the most important structure of the creation and the emergence of the modern society, are shown to establish the most important role of the human being. Creation of the universe reveals that human presence is an indispensable and integral part of it and the Creator Himself incorporates our role as an observer in the design of creation.
   Realization of the black ball, in the scenic Cosmic Creation is not explained by physical science, which fails beyond the Planck constants of space and time. An explanation of formation by employing the general and special relative theories, have been shown to be adequate in satisfying the scientific and religious basis of creation itself.
   Intricate and fine structure of life defeats all scientific explanation. Material understanding within a socio-religious development establishes our Faith and the Hereafter, satisfying the need for our eternal soul. Development of life by evolution and revolution is supplementary and complementary to our understanding.
   Nature itself is a manifestation of the Creator and is the miracle brought home through the choice of the natural constants showing the path of our universe in which we live and eliminating the millions of other possible ones ultimate goal of life, in the light of creation, brings with it the fulfillment of Faith and Science, exemplified by quotations from the holy Quran and scientific literature.
Notes: Knowledge in Science and Islam:       Scientific facts amounts to the understanding of Nature and the natural phenomenon; and scientific discovery is nothing more than a logical disclosure of facts carried out through experiments and observations of its results. Obviously, there is no conflict between Faith and Science, both leads to the knowledge given to us by the Creator as His spiritual and material guidance. J.B.S.Haldane states, "The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science."  Paul Davies observed, "The early attempts by the church to hold back the flood-gates of scientific advance have left a deep suspicion about religion among the scientific community. For their part, scientists have demolished a lot of cherished religious beliefs and have come to be regarded by many as faith-wreckers" (God and the  New Physics - Paul Davies, Simon and Schuster,New York,1983).
      The fact is that in today's society we have developed a system of compartmentalized education system wherein the religious school teaches religion with very little, if any, of science and scientific understanding.  And on the other hand the scientific and other worldly subjects are taught without reference to any religious understanding or knowledge of religion. Indeed, our scientific world ignores religion altogether as a source of spiritual knowledge, only being concerned with our worldly material knowledge. This becomes more problematic when we preach secularism, which instead of allowing all religious faith to have their equal expression, actually does not allow room for any Faith at all. It becomes more complicated with our inherited education system which does not allow much communication between the two. Thus most of the religious knowledge coming from men without scientific understanding becomes "blind" and the scientific knowledge from people without any religious understanding remains "lame" as observed by Einstein. Charles Townes, the Nobel laureate in laser technology said, "Science wants to know the mechanism of the universe, religion the meaning. The two cannot be separated" (Science, Vol.277, 15 August, 1997).
Table of contents: title: The Scenario of Cosmic Creation
pagenum: 10
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label: I; label: II
pagenum: 25
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title: Time and Space-the Building Blocks of Our Existence; label: III
pagenum: 41
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title: The Science of Reality; label: IV
pagenum: 48
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title: Religion and Society; title: Nature - the Miracle of Creation
pagenum: 64
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label: V; label: Appendix
pagenum: 74
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title: Scientists of Golden Age of Islam with some selected publications and subjects; pagenum: 79
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label: REFERRENCES