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[[File:Maurice Bucaille.JPG|thumb|190px|right|Bucailleism is named after the French surgeon Dr. Maurice Bucaille.]] | [[File:Maurice Bucaille.JPG|thumb|190px|right|Bucailleism is named after the French surgeon Dr. Maurice Bucaille.]] | ||
'''Bucailleism''' is a term used for the movement to relate modern science with religion, principally [[Islam]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=raKRY3KQspsC&pg=PA456&dq=bucaillism&hl=en&ei=kdKPTcTLCpHEswatqPmKCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=bucaillism&f=false Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-western cultures], ed. [[Helaine Selin]], retrieved 28 March 2011</ref> | '''Bucailleism''' is a term used for the movement to relate modern science with religion, principally [[Islam]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=raKRY3KQspsC&pg=PA456&dq=bucaillism&hl=en&ei=kdKPTcTLCpHEswatqPmKCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=bucaillism&f=false Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-western cultures], ed. [[Helaine Selin]], retrieved 28 March 2011</ref> | ||
Named after the French surgeon Maurice Bucaille, author of ''The Bible, the Quran and Science'', Bucaillists have promoted the idea that the Quran is of divine origin, arguing that it contains scientifically correct facts,<ref name="auto">[https://books.google.com/books?id=uLjaAAAAMAAJ&q=bucaillism&dq=bucaillism&hl=en&ei=kdKPTcTLCpHEswatqPmKCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAw Explorations in Islamic science] Ziauddin Sardar, (1989), retrieved 28 March 2011</ref><ref>An illusion of harmony: science and religion in Islam (2007) [[Taner Edis]], retrieved 28 March 2011</ref> and that "one of the main convincing evidences" that lead many to convert to [[Islam]] "is the large number of [[Islam and Science|scientific facts in the Quran]]."<ref>Zaghloul El-Naggar, an Egyptian geologist, quoted in | Named after the French surgeon Maurice Bucaille, author of ''The Bible, the Quran and Science'', Bucaillists have promoted the idea that the Quran is of divine origin, arguing that it contains scientifically correct facts,<ref name="auto">[https://books.google.com/books?id=uLjaAAAAMAAJ&q=bucaillism&dq=bucaillism&hl=en&ei=kdKPTcTLCpHEswatqPmKCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAw Explorations in Islamic science] Ziauddin Sardar, (1989), retrieved 28 March 2011</ref><ref>An illusion of harmony: science and religion in Islam (2007) [[Taner Edis]], retrieved 28 March 2011</ref> and that "one of the main convincing evidences" that lead many to convert to [[Islam]] "is the large number of [[Islam and Science|scientific facts in the Quran]]."<ref>Zaghloul El-Naggar, an Egyptian geologist, quoted in {{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1011738146332966760 |title=Strange Bedfellows: Western Scholars Play Key Role in Touting `Science' of the Quran |author=Daniel Golden |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=January 23, 2002}}</ref> | ||
Some of its claims include that "the [[Qur'an]] prophesied the Big Bang theory, space travel and other contemporary scientific breakthroughs," and that "there are more than 1200 verses (Ayat) which can be interpreted in the light of modern science."<ref>[http://www.irfi.org/articles/articles_1_50/all_things_in_pair.htm QUR'AN AND SCIENCE]</ref> It has been called "a fast-growing branch of Islamic fundamentalism." | Some of its claims include that "the [[Qur'an]] prophesied the Big Bang theory, space travel and other contemporary scientific breakthroughs," and that "there are more than 1200 verses (Ayat) which can be interpreted in the light of modern science."<ref>[http://www.irfi.org/articles/articles_1_50/all_things_in_pair.htm QUR'AN AND SCIENCE]</ref> It has been called "a fast-growing branch of Islamic fundamentalism." | ||
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According to ''The Wall Street Journal'', Bucailleism is "in some ways the Muslim counterpart to Christian creationism" and although "while creationism rejects much of modern science, Bucailleism embraces it."<ref name="StrBedfel">{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1011738146332966760 |title=Strange Bedfellows: Western Scholars Play Key Role in Touting `Science' of the Quran |author=Daniel Golden |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=January 23, 2002}}</ref> | According to ''The Wall Street Journal'', Bucailleism is "in some ways the Muslim counterpart to Christian creationism" and although "while creationism rejects much of modern science, Bucailleism embraces it."<ref name="StrBedfel">{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1011738146332966760 |title=Strange Bedfellows: Western Scholars Play Key Role in Touting `Science' of the Quran |author=Daniel Golden |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=January 23, 2002}}</ref> | ||
The doctrine is "widely taught" in Islamic secondary schools, promoted on at least one popular weekly television program in the Arab world<ref>Zaghloul El-Naggar, an Egyptian geologist </ref> and is advanced by "a well-funded campaign" led by the Commission on Scientific Signs in the Quran and Sunnah, based in Saudi Arabia and founded by Sheikh Abdul Majeed Zindani, a leading militant Islamist and "Specially Designated Global Terrorist".<ref name="Loyalist">[{{Reference archive|1=http://web.archive.org/web/20100314033922/http://www.treasury.gov/press/releases/js1190.htm|2=2013-04-10}} United States Designates bin Laden Loyalist], United States Department of the Treasury, JS-1190, February 24, 2004</ref> Although Bucailleism is said to be "disdained by most mainstream scholars", it has been valuable in fostering "pride in Muslim heritage", and reconciling conflicts that Muslim "students may feel between their religious beliefs and secular careers in engineering or computers."<ref name="StrBedfel" | The doctrine is "widely taught" in Islamic secondary schools, promoted on at least one popular weekly television program in the Arab world<ref>Zaghloul El-Naggar, an Egyptian geologist </ref> and is advanced by "a well-funded campaign" led by the Commission on Scientific Signs in the Quran and Sunnah, based in Saudi Arabia and founded by Sheikh Abdul Majeed Zindani, a leading militant Islamist and "Specially Designated Global Terrorist".<ref name="Loyalist">[{{Reference archive|1=http://web.archive.org/web/20100314033922/http://www.treasury.gov/press/releases/js1190.htm|2=2013-04-10}} United States Designates bin Laden Loyalist], United States Department of the Treasury, JS-1190, February 24, 2004</ref> Although Bucailleism is said to be "disdained by most mainstream scholars", it has been valuable in fostering "pride in Muslim heritage", and reconciling conflicts that Muslim "students may feel between their religious beliefs and secular careers in engineering or computers."<ref name="StrBedfel" /> | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
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===Accuracy=== | ===Accuracy=== | ||
Gamal Soltan, a political scientist at Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies protests that the approach of starting with a conclusion from the Qur'an or Sunna (e.g. | Gamal Soltan, a political scientist at Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies protests that the approach of starting with a conclusion from the Qur'an or Sunna (e.g. a hadith says the body has 360 joints) and then work toward proving that conclusion, corrupts the scientific method. In the case of the belief in the body having 360 joints, it has meant counting "things that some orthopedists might not call a joint."<ref name="DiscovSciIsl" /> | ||
Other critics protest against claims by Bucailleists such as that the body has 360 joints<ref>[http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?t=118422 Islam's claim about the 360 joints in the human body was proven to be true!]</ref> or that the [[Science and the Seven Earths|earth has seven layers]]:<ref>[http://www.missionislam.com/science/earthsevenlayers.html Earth’s Seven Layers]</ref> | Other critics protest against claims by Bucailleists such as that the body has 360 joints<ref>[http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?t=118422 Islam's claim about the 360 joints in the human body was proven to be true!]</ref> or that the [[Science and the Seven Earths|earth has seven layers]]:<ref>[http://www.missionislam.com/science/earthsevenlayers.html Earth’s Seven Layers]</ref> | ||