Does Quran verifies Science

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There always has been a huge gap and conflict between the religious and scientific beliefs. There were very few people who believe both religion and science at the same time. The main trend of being human more towards science than religion is due to the fact that people do not see logical reasons and argument for most of the religious beliefs. From the past few centuries, people have become more rational and argumentative than the past. A man from ancient civilization often used to believe in the authority of pope without questioning him for the proofs. With the advent of Islam, the authority of religious people became significantly less due to the rights of equality Islam gave to all the people. However, later in the Islamic period many people rose and declare themselves better than others. But those were mainly the corrupt ones who did not comply with the commandments of Islam. Today science has become so advanced that every belief or concept is not accepted by the people unless sound logical argument s are provided. One may think, then most of the people should discard religion due to lack of such logical arguments, but it is not the case. So the question arises that do religious beliefs exist on sound basis of logic? And is there any compatibility between the religion and modern science? This is a huge vast topic that cannot be explained in just an essay, but to narrow it down this essay mainly specifies Quran as a book of religious beliefs with the research question that “Does Quran verify or contradict the most fundamental scientific laws?” this is worthy of consideration here that this essay is related to the comparison of Quran with only the fundamental laws, because a great number of scientific theories still are not veri...

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