Its dominating adoption of strictly empirical methodologies...

Its dominating adoption of strictly empirical methodologies, such as that of logical positivism, is addressed in this essay and regarded as an instigator to the environmental crisis. Such criticism is not new and has been voiced by many others before, including religious philosophers, historians of science and scientists themselves.

Examples of prominent thinkers, from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, that have criticized modern science for these or similar reasons are Émile Meyerson, Alfred North Whitehead, F. Sherwood Taylor, Jacques Maritian, G.D. Yarnold, Lord Northbourne, Titus Burckhardt, Frithjof Schuon, Seyyed Hossein Nasr and William C. Chittick.

2-Perennialism is a philosophy that recognizes the universal recurrence of philosophical insight existent throughout epochs, sacred traditions and cultures, especially regarding dimensions of universal truth on the nature of reality. 3- Nasr Foundation: Islamic Teachings, “Biography / Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr.”, http://www.nasrfoundation.org/bios.html (Accessed August 22, 2010).

4 Paul Ecleston, “Red List of endangered species - wildlife disappearing as never before.” Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/3306508/Red-List-of-endangered-species-wildlifedisappearing- as-never-before.html (accessed August 31, 2010); MSNBC, “First half of 2010 warmest on record - U.S. news - Environment - Climate Change - msnbc.com.” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ id/38263788/ (accessed August 31, 2010) 5 Qur’an, trans. Muhammad Asad, 27:18-[^19]: Modified.

6 The Qur’an 27:15-19 7 The Qur’an 4:136 8 The Qur’an 55:1-13 9 The Qur’an 2:30, 33:72 10 The Qur’an 13:15, 16:49, 22:18, 55:6 11 The Qur’an 16:49-50, 64:1 12 The Qur’an 2:164, 3:190, 6:99, 10:6, 10:67, 13:3-4, 16:69, 17:12, 20:54, 24:44-46, 26:7-8, 27:86, 29:44, 30:20-25, 30:46, 32:27, 34:15, 36:33-44, 40:79-81, 41:37-39, 42:29, 45:1-13, 50:6-11, 51:20-23, 71:14-20, 78:6-16, 79:27-33, 88:17-20 13 Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis of Modern Man (Chicago: ABC International Group, Inc, 1997), 94-[^95]: 14 Qur’an, trans.

Mohammedali H. Shakir, 2:[^164]: Modified. 15 The Qur’an 2:25 16 The Qur’an 3:195, 18:30-31 17 as well as the Qur’anic 17 Peacethought.com, “The scientific and mathematical miracles of the Qur,” http://www.peacethought.com/miracles.htm (accessed October 10, 2010). See “Example 7: Mathematical Miracles of The Qur’an”. 18 M.A.