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beneath the heavens, both simple bodies like water, air, earth, fire, and
composite bodies like animals, plants and minerals, and also of the causes
of their changes, transformations and combinations. This is similar to the
investigation by medicine of the human body with its principal and
subordinate organs, and of the causes of the changes of temperament. Just
as it is not a condition of religion to reject medical science, so likewise the
rejection of natural science is not one of its conditions, except with regard to
particular points which I enumerate in my book, The Incoherence of the
Philosophers. Any other points on which a different view has to be taken
from the philosophers are shown by reflection to be implied in those
mentioned. The basis of all these objections is the recognition that nature is
in subjection to Allah most high, not acting of itself but serving as an
instrument in the hands of its Creator. Sun and moon, stars and elements,
are in subjection to His command. There is none of them whose activity is
produced by or proceeds from its own essence.
4. THEOLOGY OR METAPHYSICS. Here occur most of the errors of the
composite bodies like animals, plants and minerals, and also of the causes
of their changes, transformations and combinations. This is similar to the
investigation by medicine of the human body with its principal and
subordinate organs, and of the causes of the changes of temperament. Just
as it is not a condition of religion to reject medical science, so likewise the
rejection of natural science is not one of its conditions, except with regard to
particular points which I enumerate in my book, The Incoherence of the
Philosophers. Any other points on which a different view has to be taken
from the philosophers are shown by reflection to be implied in those
mentioned. The basis of all these objections is the recognition that nature is
in subjection to Allah most high, not acting of itself but serving as an
instrument in the hands of its Creator. Sun and moon, stars and elements,
are in subjection to His command. There is none of them whose activity is
produced by or proceeds from its own essence.
4. THEOLOGY OR METAPHYSICS. Here occur most of the errors of the