Bucailleism: When Pseudoscience is Used to Gain New Converts in Islam

Islamic science requires scientific method to separate the pseudoscience of Bucailleism from the pursuit of science.

Using the Koran to prove the Big Bang is like using the Christian Bible to disprove it: you have to suspend disbelief in divine inspiration and make preposterous conjectures about science relying on a holy book that is given such a higher authority that to criticise it is offensive to most Muslims.

Thus most Muslim scholars do not criticise Bucailleism because propaganda based on it is useful to gaining new converts.


What is ironic is most of Muslim science came from ancient Greek scientists who lived in Anatolia and in the Middle East from 800 to 1250 CE.

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References

https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Bucailleism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_attitudes_towards_science
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world