ABSTRACT
Muslims approach modern science not only with some trepidation because of the way it’s been used to colonize Muslim-majority countries but also with pride because Islam held the seedbed for much scientific exploration and flourishing in the eighth to thirteenth centuries. Islam’s central teaching is the absolute Oneness (Arabic tawhid) of God and thus God’s absolute creation and sustaining power over the natural world. Today, Islam is at a crossroads, with some predominate sectors promoting anti-evolutionary thought and seeking to promote the Quran as a uniquely scientific book on the one hand, while a majority of Muslims embrace modern science, and thus its consensus, as well as the ethics of resisting climate change, on the other.
