Epigraph

What is the matter with you? Why will you not fear God’s majesty, when He has created you stage by stage? Have you ever wondered how God created seven heavens, one above the other, placed the moon as a light in them and the sun as a lamp, how God made you spring forth from the earth like a plant, how He will return you into it and then bring you out again, and how He has spread the Earth out for you to walk along its spacious paths?” (Al Quran 71:13-20)

Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times

One good way of understanding Monotheism in an era when most scientists and mathematicians are atheists is to listen to all the Templeton Prize winners and review their main work.

Francis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-scientist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He served as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, from 17 August 2009 to 19 December 2021, serving under three presidents.^[1][2]

For the sake of pluralism and truth seeking, we, the Muslims can fully enjoy the science and religion correlation presented by pluralistic Christian scientists and philosophers, by a simple realization: We believe in a Unitarian God of Judaism, Unitarian Christianity and Islam, who defined simply is God the Father in the Trinitarian Christian tradition.

Francis Collins book, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, is one of the best books to present guided evolution, rather than a godless metaphysics, given the realities of biological evolution. The brief review of the book in Amazon:

An instant bestseller from Templeton Prize–winning author Francis S. Collins, The Language of God provides the best argument for the integration of faith and logic since C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity.

It has long been believed that science and faith cannot mingle. Faith rejects the rational, while science restricts us to a life with no meaning beyond the physical. It is an irreconcilable war between two polar-opposite ways of thinking and living. Written for believers, agnostics, and atheists alike, The Language of God provides a testament to the power of faith in the midst of suffering without faltering from its logical stride. Readers will be inspired by Collin’s personal story of struggling with doubt, as well as the many revelations of the wonder of God’s creation that will forever shape the way they view the world around them.

Additional reading for guided evolution

Video: The Best Argument for Guided Evolution by Alvin Plantinga

Time: Is God the Creator Atemporal or in Time, and Guided Evolution

Video: William Lane Craig in Quest of the Historical Adam and My Muslim Perspective

Video: If God, What’s Evolution? | Closer To Truth

The Quranic Challenge to the Atheists: Make a Fly, if You Can

Video: Some Scientists Denying Darwin, Truth or Not, God of the Gaps?

Surah Al Baqara (The Cow): Section 4: Adam and Eve

Meeting the Quranic Adam with Charles Darwin

The Single Quranic Verse that Can Convince You about Evolution

Biology of Our Human Family: Who are We Related To?

Was Evolution Guided By A Divine Hand? | Science Vs God | Spark