[mjp]

In reality, science and Islam are fundamentally incompatible, which is why, despite the propaganda, there are no Muslim scientists in the history of the Islamic world.

For mohammedans, Allah is not presented as a lawful creator but was conceived of as an extremely active God who intrudes on the world as he deems it appropriate. Consequently,there arose a major theological bloc within mohammedanism that condemned all efforts to formulate natural laws as blasphemy insofar as they denied Allah's freedom to act.

The koran states ""Verily, God will cause to err whom he pleaseth, and will direct whom he pleaseth." If God does as he pleases, and what he pleases is variable, then the universe may not be lawful. Thus, mohammedan theology did not provide the necessary fundamental assumptions for erecting the concept of science based on observations leading to the formulation of natural laws.

[agere_contra]

Excellent point about ‘limiting Allah’.

Islamic thought also has a bizarre version of truth where two contradictory facts can both be true at the same time.

This is vital to Islam because Mohammed contradicted himself constantly, and the Allah he describes is arbitrary.

But it makes a nonsense of formal logic and synthesis.

Find an apparent contradiction in an experiment or observation? Western thinkers would dig deeper, find out what’s going on and formulate a more general truth. But Muslim thinkers might say ‘the created world contradicts itself, so what? ‘.