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THE QUR'AN LEADS THE W A Y TO SCIENCE

making noteworthy contributions in optics, sonics, and gas dynamics. He
was the co-discoverer of argon and the rare gases. He was also well
known as a devout believer. As a prefix to his published papers he wrote:
"The works of the Lord are great". 116

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Agriculture became a very important
discipline beginning from the turn of the 19th
century. Carver was a noted agricultural
researcher who made a number of critical
discoveries.
Carver was known for his belief in God,
to which he almost always referred to in
his speeches and interviews. As he told a
George Washington Carver reporter for the Atlanta Journal who
questioned him about the permanency of
the clay paints he had developed: "All I do is prepare what God has made,
for uses to which man can put it. It is God's work-not mine." 117
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Prominent physicist Sir James Jeans believed that the universe was
created by a Creator of infinite Wisdom. Some of the statements in which
he elaborated his views are:
We discover that the Universe shows evidence of a designing or
controlling Power that has something in common with our own
minds. 118
A scientific study of the universe has suggested a conclusion which
may be summed up . . In the statement that the universe appears to
have been designed by a pure mathematician. 119
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