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Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson gives a short address/tribute speech at the Templeton Prize ceremony for Dr. Alvin Plantinga in 2017. He addresses the issues of science and faith, atheism, and the contributions of Dr. Plantinga.
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Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson gives a short address/tribute speech at the Templeton Prize ceremony for Dr. Alvin Plantinga in 2017. He addresses the issues of science and faith, atheism, and the contributions of Dr. Plantinga.
All copyright belong to John Templeton Foundation.
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Who is Hamza Yusuf?Hamza Yusuf (born 1960) is an American Islamic scholar. Yusuf is the co-founder of Zaytuna College. He is a proponent of classical learning in Islam and has promoted Islamic sciences and classical teaching methodologies throughout the world.
What is Atheism?Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is the rejection of belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities
Atheism is contrasted with theism, which, in its most general form, is the belief that at least one deity exists.
What is Science?Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. The earliest roots of science can be traced to the works of Ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians, whose
contributions entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek science deteriorated in Western Europe during the Middle Ages but flourished in the Islamic Golden Age. Modern science is typically divided into three major branches that consist of the natural sciences (e.g. biology, chemistry, physics), which study nature in the broadest sense; the social sciences (e.g. psychology, sociology, economics), which study individuals and societies; and the formal sciences (e.g. mathematics, logic, theoretical computer science), which study abstract concepts.
