Science in the Service of the Scriptures

Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Are science and religion at odds with each other? Cary Funk and Becka A Alper nicely […]

Book Review: Can Religion and Science Coexist?

Source: The Atlantic Reviewed by JEFFREY TAYLER A new book by the evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne tackles arguments that the two institutions are compatible. In May 1988, a 13-year-old girl named […]

Video: Dawkins on religion: Is religion good or evil?

For the Muslim Times’ collection on Religion & Science, please click here With the headlines covering fanaticism, fundamentalism, superstition and ignorance, religion is getting a bad press these days. And […]

156 years after “On the Origin of Species,” what do Christians think about evolution?

The Un-evolving Relationship between American Christians, Evolution, and Climate Change Source: Huffington Post By Ryan Gear; Founding and lead pastor, One Church; founder, openmindedchurch.org Last week marked 156 years since Charles […]

How Science Brought Me Closer to God

Source: Huffington Post BY Kashif N. Chaudhry, Physician, writer and human rights activist I was born in a Muslim household to parents who laid great emphasis on spirituality and science. […]

Dialogue: Humanist vs Islamic perspectives on science and the modern world

Source: The Guardian By Yasmin Khan, who is the producer of Sindbad Sci-Fi. Follow her on Twitter @Ya5min_BL Jim Al-Khalili, physicist and Ziauddin Sardar, chair of the Muslim Institute, talk science, […]

Charles Darwin: An Epiphany for the Muslims, A Catastrophe for the Christians

Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The National Museum of Natural History, located on the National Mall just across from the Smithsonian castle, is America’s […]

The anesthesia of familiarity: There should be a Creator of Our Universe

Epigraph Allah is He Who raised up the heavens without any pillars that you can see. Then He settled Himself on the Throne. And He pressed the sun and the […]

The Witches: What Really Happened In Salem In 1692 — An All Together Conversation With Stacy Schiff

Source: Huffington Post By Paul Brandeis Raushenbush; Executive Editor Of Global Spirituality and Religion, The Huffington Post Over nine months in the year 1692, 14 women and five men were executed in […]

The Root Cause of Science and Religion Conflict: Wrong Theology!

Source: Muslim Sunrise, Summer 2012 Written by Zia H Shah The Chinese tell of a time during the Hsia dynasty, in the third millennium before Jesus,  when our cosmic environment suddenly […]

From the Muslim Sunrise: Truth and Science

Source: Muslim Sunrise Fall 2015 volume; which is the oldest quarterly Muslim publication of Americas By Khaula Rehman MD, Binghamton NY Over one half of young Americans, 63% to be […]

Pope John Paul II: Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Albert Einstein’s search for God, a detailed study from the Islamic perspective

Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Was Einstein a monotheist, deist, pantheist, or an atheist? How did his religion affect his science? Agnostics, […]

Francis Collins: Science and faith can actually be mutually enriching and complementary once their proper domains are understood and respected.