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The Muslim world does not seem to suffer from those tiresome conflicts between science and religion that have vexed Christendom these past 400 years. Thus, Muslim scientists and clerics found themselves of one mind when recently assembled in Qatar for a conference titled "Mecca, the Center of the Earth, Theory and Practice." This was one of a series of events aimed at deriving tenets of science from the Koran. Some of the results had Western observers scratching their heads. A Muslim geologist, for example, asserted that Mecca's longitude (39[degrees] 49' E) was in perfect alignment with ...