Epigraph:
What is the matter with you that you expect not wisdom from Allah? While He has created you in different forms and ever varying states? … And Allah has caused you to grow like plants, as a good growth from the earth. (Al Quran 71:14-18)
Charles Darwin tree of life, linking all life forms
Lead article written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times
Exposing Creationism of Zakir Naik, Tahir ul Qadari, Yusuf Estes and Harun Yahya
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD I believe that the theory of evolution should be understood as three different issues. Firstly, the common ancestry of all animals and plants,…
Leg bone gives up oldest human DNA
Source: BBC By Paul Rincon: Science editor, BBC News website The discovery of DNA in a 400,000-year-old human thigh bone will open up a new frontier in the study of…
Did Life’s First Cells Evolve in Geothermal Pools?
Source: Scientific American Earth started as a violent place, its surface churned by continuous volcanic eruptions and cloaked in an atmosphere that would have been poisonous to today’s life-forms. Furthermore, the…
Evolution debate again erupts before Texas Board of Education
By Will Weissert, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Board of Education used a late-night meeting to give preliminary approval to new science textbooks for classrooms across the state…
Stone-Tipped Spears Were In Use 85,000 Years Before Modern Humans Appeared, Scientists Say
Source: Huffington Post Our early ancestors may have been cleverer than we once thought. An international team of researchers said last week they had found evidence that sophisticated weapons once…
Homo Sapiens: The Birth of Humanity
Additional reading: Darwinian Evolution: Islam or Christianity? …
Pope John Paul II and Me: ‘Truth Cannot Contradict Truth!’
Pope John Paul II Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times This is a summary of the address of Pope John Paul II…
Creationist Darek Isaacs Calls Dragons Real, Says They Lived In Biblical Times
The Huffington Post | By Meredith Bennett-Smith Posted: 08/15/2013 5:30 pm EDT | Updated: 08/16/2013 1:34 pm EDT The idea that dragons once walked the earth among humans–or even existed at all–sounds…
Orangutans Plan Their Trips Like Humans, Tell Others Their Future Travel Routes
Male orangutans may be GPS makers’ new target demographic. www.ibtimes.com: According to research from anthropologists at the University of Zurich, it has been discovered that male orangutans use their…
Chromosome Study Traces All Men To Man Who Lived 135,000 Years Ago
Y chromosome analysis moves Adam closer to Eve Source: Science News By Erin Wayman Web edition: August 1, 2013 Print edition: September 7, 2013; Vol.184 #5 (p. 14) Genetic studies…
Al-Jahiz: A Pioneer in Theory of Evolution
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia al-Ja?i? (Arabic: ???????) (full name Abu ?Uthman ?Amr ibn Ba?r al-Kinani al-Ba?ri (born in Basra, 781 – December 868/January 869) was an Arabic prose writer and author of…
Christian Faith Requires Accepting Evolution?
The Muslim Times’ question or food for thought regarding the dilemma between evolution and creationism: What bearing does evolution has on Original Sin? Were Adam and Eve the first human…
Movie about Monkey Trial: Inherit the Wind
Additional Reading Darwinian Evolution: Islam or Christianity?…
Oldest human DNA found in Spain
By Elizabeth Landau (CNN) — There were no genetic tests 400,000 years ago, so our ancient relatives didn’t know as much about themselves as we know about them now. Scientists…
The Origin of Life: Evolution vs. Design
Prologue For the Muslim viewers, I suggest three verses of the Holy Quran to be kept in mind as they watch this debate: He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker,…
Contemporary Issues: A Dialogue between an Atheists and a Muslim about Evolution
A challenge for Dawkins: Where did carbon come from?…
Evolution And God: Only 21% Of Americans Believe Humans Evolved Without Divine Guidance
Though the number of Americans who believe that human beings evolved without God’s influence has increased since 2004, the percentage may still prove surprising to some. According to a…
Video: Fossils reveal ‘missing links’ in Earth’s evolution after dinosaurs
Source: BBC What is now a dry, harsh mountain desert in south-west Wyoming was once a lush subtropical landscape with lakes, volcanoes and an abundance of wildlife. In “The Lost…
Ancient horse bone yields oldest DNA sequence
Every proof of evolution can serve as a proof of Islam over Christianity: Darwinian Evolution: Islam or Christianity? Source: BBC By Jonathan Ball A fragment of a fossilised bone thought to be…
Will mammoths be brought back to life? Liquid blood find fuels cloning hopes
By Nick Thompson, CNN (CNN) — Remember when woolly mammoths roamed the planet? No? Well don’t worry if you missed the last ice age — scientists have moved one step…
Biogeography: One of the best proofs for Darwin-Wallace theory of evolution
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Since my visits to Hawaii islands and Bermuda, starting in 2004, I have become a staunch believer in evolution, by which I…
First gorilla genome map offers clues to human evolution
(CNN) – The first complete gorilla genome has been mapped by scientists giving fresh insights into our own origins. Gorilla are the last of the genus of living great apes (humans,…