CONTENTS
Editor’s Preface
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8
Misunderstandings about Science and Technology
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11
Quantum Entanglement:
Illusion or Reality?
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15
Nature: A Book to Be Contemplated
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21
The Islamic Conceptualization of the Sciences
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28
Mathematics and the
Universe
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33
Connection, Always and Everywhere
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38
Action and Coincidence
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44
The Holy Qur’an and Dirac’s Theory of Pairs
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50
Time and Beyond as a Dimension
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57
A Tale of Design and Love
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61
Physics of the Unseen
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70
A Dead End for Science or a Call to the
Creator
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77
Ensoulment: When Does Human Life Begin?
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82
Two Different Fields for Science and Religion
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94
Causality and the Qur’anic World-View
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103
The
Universe in the Light of Modern Physics
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112
The Sub-Atomic World and Creation
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118
Quest to Solve the Mystery of Life
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124
Science and Religion: Between Friction and Harmony
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129
The Delicate Balance of Life on Earth
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135
Index
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142
Mustafa Mencutekin (Mencutekin) is the Chair of the Department of Animation Film in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Marmara University. He has written several articles in Turkish and English about the communicative and morphological aspects of movies. He has taught cinema in communication studies in the Distance Learning Program in Alfred University, Istanbul, Turkey. He lives in Istanbul, Turkey.