Scientists ID ‘Morning Person’ Gene
Napoleon Bonaparte, Margaret Thatcher, Leonardo da Vinci … history is full of names of famous figures who accomplished historical feats on reportedly few hours of sleep. Now, new research suggests they may […]
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Zia H Shah
He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes
Albert Einstein’s search for God
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Was he a monotheist, deist, pantheist, or an atheist? How did his religion affect his science? Agnostics, atheists and pantheists, all equally claim that Einstein belongs to them. But, as he belonged to Jewish background, Abrahamic traditions […]
A new beginning for the United Nations: Will it survive the current crisis?
By Gyan Basnet. Courtesy Asia Times Online. The United Nations was founded in 1945 in order to replace the League of Nations and in so doing to bring about a new world order. Today the organization’s structure still reflects the circumstances pertaining at the time of its founding, but in the meantime […]
An invitation to other religions: demonstrating human rights and Universal Brotherhood from their scriptures
I was very happy to see the rescue of the 33 miners in Chile, in October of 2010, after an ordeal of more than two months. I noted all the […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta participated in President’s Charity Fun Run 2011
A record-breaking some 11,000 people filled the streets from San Anton to Valletta in the third – and biggest – the yearly President’s Charity Fun Run for Istrina that took […]
Religion without ethic: Punish the Sinner, let go the Criminal
by Khalid Ahmed- Express Tribune; There is little consciousness of ethic in us because of the way we understand our religion. It deals with piety through worship. Once attained, piety is supposed to ensure ethical conduct. Therefore, religiosity is what we emphasise and practise it to make others believe that […]
When does our renaissance start?
By NAWAR FAKHRY EZZI What if there were a society where all people are in black and white with everyone murmuring the same prayers and leading the same way of life? For some people, this would be a dream come true. They believe that there is only one “true” path […]
Politics not ripe for Palestinian statehood bid – Fayyad
By Taylor Luck AMMAN – Global and regional politics are not yet ripe for a Palestinian state, according to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, as leadership in Ramallah eyes a less than certain future. The Palestinian premier, a champion of institution-building as a path to statehood, said the current political […]
Scientists Regenerate Muscle in Mice
A team of scientists from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and CellThera, a private company located in WPI’s Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center, have regenerated functional muscle tissue in mice, opening […]
ANALYSIS: Persecution of Ahmedis in the Islamic Republic —Yasser Latif Hamdani
The basic premise on which we won ourselves Pakistan was that a permanent majority cannot and should not dominate a permanent minority on account of numeric strength. Yet contrary to that founding logic, Pakistan is today legally a totalitarian fundamentalist theocracy A fresh round of hate has been unleashed against […]
A Vaccination Against Social Prejudice
Evolutionary psychologists suspect that prejudice is rooted in survival: Our distant ancestors had to avoid outsiders who might have carried disease. Research still shows that when people feel vulnerable to illness, they exhibit more bias toward stigmatized groups. But a new study inPsychological Science, a journal published by the Association for […]
Like Humans, the Paper Wasp Has a Special Talent for Learning Faces
ScienceDaily (Dec. 1, 2011) — Though paper wasps have brains less than a millionth the size of humans’, they have evolved specialized face-learning abilities analogous to the system used by humans, according to a University of Michigan evolutionary biologist and one of her graduate students. “Wasps and humans have independently evolved […]
Gender inequality persists in multitasking: study
NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2011 (Reuters) — Men may be helping more in the home but working women still do more multitasking in U.S. families than their partners and are finding it stressful, according to a new study. Whether it is housework, cooking or childcare, women do about 10 hours more […]
Why Do Some People Never Forget a Face?
Science Daily (Dec. 2, 2011) — “Face recognition is an important social skill, but not all of us are equally good at it,” says Beijing Normal University cognitive psychologist Jia Liu. But what accounts for the difference? A new study by Liu and colleagues Ruosi Wang, Jingguang Li, Huizhen Fang, and […]
Some Atheist Scientists With Children Embrace Religious Traditions, According to New Research
ScienceDaily (Dec. 1, 2011) — Some atheist scientists with children embrace religious traditions for social and personal reasons, according to research from Rice University and the University at Buffalo — The State University of New York (SUNY). The study also found that some atheist scientists want their children to know about […]
The Gospel According to Thomas
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The Gospel of Matthew: the most Jewish gospel
It is one of the four canonical Gospels and is perhaps the most Jewish of all the Gospels with maximum stress on following the Jewish Law. It was written around 80 AD about ten years after the Gospel of Mark. According to Encyclopedia Britannica: “It has traditionally been attributed to […]
Why the SEC needs a new game plan with Citi
Instead of defending its rejected $285 million settlement with Citigroup, the SEC should take a page from the Enron playbook and consider pursuing individual officers. By Eleanor Bloxham, CEO of The Value Alliance and Corporate Governance Alliance FORTUNE — In the wake of Judge Jed Rakoff’s order rejecting the SEC […]
Rights Group Calls on UN to Rescue Women from MKO Captivity
TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iran-based rights group voiced deep concern about severe violation of human rights in Camp Ashraf, the main stronghold of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization in Iraq, and urged the UN to rescue the female members of the group who have long been held captive by their […]
Muharram – the more known and the less known
The more known: Source: Wikipedia. Muharram (Arabic: المحرّم) is the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is one of the four sacred months of the year in which fighting is prohibited.[1] Since the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar, Muharram moves from year to year when compared with the […]