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The Unifying Theory of Everything: Koran & Nature's Testimony

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I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend it to anyone who is struggling to resolve the issues of science and spirituality. The author's writing style creates a book that is easy to read, captivating, yet very thorough and logical.

Even if you're not a Muslim, this book is well worth reading. Knowledge of the Koran is not needed to understand the author's points.

Indeed, I experienced some of the same frustrations with this book as another reviewer. There are a lot of grammatical errors in the early pages. I am well into the book now however, and the author appears to clean up his grammar. In other words, there is a striking contrast between the frequency of grammatical errors in early and later chapters. This just stresses the importance of having a professional editor review the pages before submitting for publication. Such a shame for the author's hard work to go to waste like that.

I think it would be prudent for the author to revise this book after grammatical corrections in early chapters have been made. I can see many turning away from this book and some of the great points made within solely based on this. For future readers, what I can suggest is a "tough it out" approach in the initial chapter.

Another small improvement to the book could also be made. Rather than simply refer you to the Koran chapter and verse as this author does so frequently, the book would be more pleasant to read if these verses were integrated within the author's texts. The author follows this suggestion in only a select number of cases. Koranic verses are small enough for this to be a viable improvement. This would allow the reader to cruise through the book without jumping to the Koran for confirmation/reference every few moments.

Aside from that, the author makes some interesting comparisons. This book would be well worth a read. I agree with one of the other reviewers on one point: you don't have to be a Muslim, nor have read the Koran previously to make sense of this book, albeit it would allow the reader to gain a little more perspective.

I actually only made it through the introduction and a portion of the first chapter, so perhaps it's unfair for me to judge this book. I wanted very much to read it and learn more about the Koran, but I couldn't get beyond all of the grammatical errors. There are comma splices, sentence fragments, and many awkward sentences that made it hard for me to take the author seriously as an authority on the subject.

The book, The Unifying Theory of Everything, is unique and has the potential to evoke great interest among scientists and lay people alike because of its non-traditional linking of science and religion. Using modern discoveries and testable scientific knowledge in cosmology and biology, it presents work similar to what is presented in Michael Denton's, Nature's Destiny and Paul Davies,' The Mind of God, adding a unique dimension to them. Whereas the two above-mentioned works arrive at evidence for design in the scheme of the natural world, this book presents the evidence [to design] as being part of the unifying "Theory of Everything," contained in the Koran, centuries earlier. It links explicit statements in the Koran with modern discoveries pointing towards design. Using the work of experts in the field, the conclusions are to say the least, amazing! The work leading to the writing of this book and the book itself can well be termed the most important discovery of this century, according to the author, and the "ultimate triumph of human reason", to quote Stephen Hawking's view of a potential unifying theory. In addition to cosmology and biology, it presents the Koran as a `falsifiable scientific theory,' which years of scientific inquiry has provided testable evidence for. It has been a part of the author's life's work for the last 15 years and is coherently set forth, in the book, for the first time. It is a truly pioneering approach to both religion and science.