Before I talk about the speaker at the next public lecture at Melbourne University, I would like to make a few observations.
1. I am puzzled by the title ‘Islamic science’, as I believe science, the pursuit of knowledge based on evidence, belongs to all of us. We do not have Hindu, Christian or Jewish science, so why have Islamic science? Admittedly we have Hindus, Christians and Jews who are scientists, but they are continuing the tradition of rational enquiry, which has in former times been in opposition to religion - one only has to think of Galileo as an example. But the world’s great scientists, from Isaac Newton to Thomas Edison to Albert Einstein, were not acting in the name of religion, but out of a quest to expand the boundaries of human knowledge.
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