The closing of the Muslim mind Environmental Studies Essay
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The Ash'arites deny reason, arguing that life is in essence an unbroken succession of miracles, all things constantly made and unmade by God: Allah can ignore logic, break his own promises, create contradictory situations (which explains contradictions in the Koran), and rewrite laws of nature; it is thus blasphemic to say that anything causes anything, or to explore reason.