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Science and Religion Previously Published Records of Building Bridges Seminars TheRoadAhead:AChristian-MuslimDialogue, MichaelIpgrave,Editor(London:ChurchHouse,2002) ScripturesinDialogue:ChristiansandMuslimsStudyingtheBibleandtheQur’a¯n Together,MichaelIpgrave,Editor(London:ChurchHouse,2004) BearingtheWord:ProphecyinBiblicalandQur’a¯nicPerspective, MichaelIpgrave,Editor(London:ChurchHouse,2005) BuildingaBetterBridge:Muslims,Christians,andtheCommonGood, MichaelIpgrave,Editor(Washington,DC:GeorgetownUniversityPress,2008) JusticeandRights:ChristianandMuslimPerspectives,MichaelIpgrave,Editor (Washington,DC:GeorgetownUniversityPress,2009) Humanity:TextsandContexts:ChristianandMuslimPerspectives, MichaelIpgraveandDavidMarshall,Editors (Washington,DC:GeorgetownUniversityPress,2011) CommunicatingtheWord:Revelation,Translation,andInterpretation inChristianityandIslam,DavidMarshall,Editor (Washington,DC:GeorgetownUniversityPress,2011) ForfurtherinformationabouttheBuildingBridgesseminar,pleasevisit http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/resources/networks/building_bridges. Science and Religion CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM PERSPECTIVES A record of the eighth Building Bridges seminar convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury Bahc¸es¸ehir University, Istanbul, June 16–18, 2009 DAVID MARSHALL, Editor GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS Washington,DC (cid:2)2012GeorgetownUniversityPress.Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybe reproducedorutilizedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronicormechanical,including photocopyingandrecording,orbyanyinformationstorageandretrievalsystem,without permissioninwritingfromthepublisher. Unlessotherwisenoted,biblicaltextsarefromNewRevisedStandardVersionBible,copyright 1989,DivisionofChristianEducationoftheNationalCounciloftheChurchesofChristinthe UnitedStatesofAmerica.Usedbypermission.Allrightsreserved. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData BuildingBridgesSeminar(8th:2009:Bahc¸esehirUniversity) Scienceandreligion:ChristianandMuslimperspectives:arecordoftheeighthBuilding BridgesSeminarconvenedbytheArchbishopofCanterbury,Bahc¸esehirUniversity,Istanbul, 16–18June2009/editedbyDavidMarshall. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-58901-914-0(pbk.:alk.paper) 1.Religionandscience—Congresses. 2.Christianity—Doctrines—Congresses. 3.Islam—Doctrines—Congresses. 4.Bible—Criticism,interpretation,etc.—Congresses. 5.Koran—Criticism,interpretation,etc.—Congresses. 6.Christianityandother religions—Islam—Congresses. 7.Islam—Relations—Christianity—Congresses. I.Marshall,David,Rev.II.Title. BL240.3.B85 2009 262.2(cid:2)7—dc23 2011041625 (cid:3)(cid:3) Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepapermeetingtherequirementsoftheAmericanNational StandardforPermanenceinPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials. 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 Firstprinting PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Contents Participants vii Introduction xi DavidMarshall BuildingBridgesinIstanbul 1 RowanWilliams Part I: Surveys ScienceandtheChristianTradition:ABriefOverview 7 JohnHedleyBrooke ScienceandReligionin theHistoryof Islam 22 AhmadDallal ScienceandReligiousBeliefintheModern World: ChallengesandOpportunities 35 DenisAlexander Part II: Texts and Commentaries BiblicalTexts 49 Commentary 53 EllenF.Davis WhatIsCreation? SubtleInsightsfromGenesis1Concerningthe OrderoftheWorld 59 MichaelWelker Qur’a¯nicTexts 66 Commentary 69 MustansirMir v (cid:2) vi contents ClassicalChristianTexts 74 Commentary:ScienceandReligionintheClassicalChristian Tradition 81 EmmanuelClapsis ClassicalIslamicTexts 89 Commentary:TheImportanceofal-Ghaza¯l¯ıandIbnRushdinthe HistoryofIslamicDiscourseonReligionandScience 102 OsmanBakar CharlesDarwin 111 Introductionto DarwinandtheSelectedTexts 120 JohnHedleyBrooke EarlyArabicViewsof Darwin 128 MarwaElshakry Modern IslamicTexts 134 Introductionto Qut.bandal-Sha‘ra¯w¯ı 143 SherineHamdy PopeJohnPaulII 152 Commentary 167 CeliaDeane-Drummond Afterword 173 RowanWilliams Index 179 Participants AlparslanAc¸ikgenc¸ ProfessorofPhilosophy,FatihUniversity,Istanbul DenisAlexander Director,FaradayInstituteforScienceandReligion,St.Edmund’s College, Cambridge,UK OsmanBakar ProfessorofIslamicThoughtandCivilization,InternationalInstituteof IslamicThoughtandCivilization(ISTAC),KualaLumpur NahideBozkurt ProfessorofTheology,AnkaraUniversity JohnHedleyBrooke EmeritusProfessorof ScienceandReligion,Universityof Oxford,UK EmmanuelClapsis ArchbishopIakovosProfessorofSystematicTheology,HolyCrossGreek OrthodoxSchoolof Theology,Brookline,Massachusetts VincentCornell AsaGriggsCandlerProfessorofArabicandIslamicStudies,Departmentof MiddleEast andSouthAsianStudies,EmoryUniversity,Atlanta,Georgia AhmadDallal ProvostandProfessorof History,AmericanUniversityofBeirut EllenF.Davis AmosRaganKearnsDistinguishedProfessorofBibleandPracticalTheology, DukeUniversity,Durham,NorthCarolina vii (cid:2) viii participants CeliaDeane-Drummond ProfessorinTheologyandtheBiosciences,andDirectorof theCentrefor ReligionandtheBiosciences, UniversityofChester,UK JohnJ.DeGioia President, GeorgetownUniversity,Washington,DC MarwaElshakry AssociateProfessorofHistoryofScience,ColumbiaUniversity,NewYork SherineHamdy AssistantProfessor,DepartmentofAnthropology,BrownUniversity, Providence,RhodeIsland DzˇevadHodzˇic´ ProfessorofEthics,FacultyofIslamicStudies,Sarajevo JosiahIdowu-Fearon BishopofKaduna,Nigeria IbrahimKalin Director,SetaFoundationforPolitical,Economic,andSocialResearch, Ankara BekirKarliga ProfessorofIslamicPhilosophy,Bahc¸es¸ehirUniversity,Istanbul FelixKo¨rner Directorof theInstitutefortheStudyof ReligionsandCultures,Pontifical GregorianUniversity,Rome JaneDammenMcAuliffe President, BrynMawrCollege,BrynMawr,Pennsylvania MustansirMir ProfessorofIslamicStudies,YoungstownStateUniversity,Youngstown,Ohio (cid:2) participants ix EbrahimMoosa AssociateProfessorofIslamicStudies,Departmentof Religion, DukeUniversity,Durham,NorthCarolina MichaelNazir-Ali BishopofRochester, ChurchofEngland NgKamWeng ResearchDirector,KairosResearchCentre,Kuala Lumpur MehmetPac¸aci Professor,AnkaraUniversity ChristophSchwo¨bel ProfessorofSystematicTheology,UniversityofTu¨bingen,Germany RecepS¸entu¨rk ProfessorofSociology,FatihUniversity,Istanbul MichaelWelker ProfessorofSystematicTheology,UniversityofHeidelberg,Germany RowanWilliams ArchbishopofCanterbury,ChurchofEngland
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