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Islamic Positivism and Scientific Truth. Qur’an and archeology in a creationist documentary

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Gutron, Clémentine [UCL] Dupret, Baudouin [UCL]

(eng) The ambition of “scientific creationism” is to prove that science actually confirms religion. This is especially true in the case of Muslim creationism, which adopts a reasoning of a syllogistic type: divine revelation is truth; good science confirms truth; divine revelation is henceforth scientifically proven. Harun Yahya is a prominent Muslim “creationist” whose website hosts many texts and documentary films, among which “Evidence of the true faith in historical sources”. This is a small audiovisual production which, starting from some archeological files, seeks to demonstrate that Qur’an truth precedes science but is equally proven by it. In this paper, we examine the organization of the scientific and religious argumentative repertoires and, in particular, what in each of them is taken as evidence and gets access to an authoritative status. It leads us to show how much this type of Muslim creationism constitutes a kind of scientism.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2016
Language Anglais
Journal information "Human Studies : a journal for philosophy and the social sciences" - Vol. 39, no. 4, p. 621–643 (2016)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Springer Netherlands ((Netherlands) Dordrecht)
issn 0163-8548
e-issn 1572-851X
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/SPLE - Institut de sciences politiques Louvain-Europe
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Bibliographic reference Gutron, Clémentine ; Dupret, Baudouin. Islamic Positivism and Scientific Truth. Qur’an and archeology in a creationist documentary. In: Human Studies : a journal for philosophy and the social sciences, Vol. 39, no. 4, p. 621–643 (2016)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/167311