The Miracle of Creation Through Evolution: How God Used a Virus to Get Us a Placenta?
Epigraph: “We created man from an essence of clay, then We placed him as a drop of fluid in a safe place, then We made that drop into a clinging […]
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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
Philosophical Thought Experiments to Grasp the Hard Problem of Consciousness
Epigraph: And they ask you concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul is by the command of my Lord; and of the knowledge thereof you have been given but a little.’ […]
Hard Problem of consciousness
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Hard problem (disambiguation). In the philosophy of mind, the hard problem of consciousness is to explain why and how humans and other organisms have qualia, phenomenal consciousness, or subjective experience.[1][2] It is contrasted with the “easy problems” of explaining why and […]
Afterlife: Do We Need This Hope?
Epigraph: Surely, the Believers, and the Jews, and the Christians and the Sabians — whichever party from among these truly believes in Allah and the Last Day and does good deeds — […]
Our Fascinating Universe
Epigraph: Soon We will show them Our Signs in all parts of the earth, and among their own psychology until it becomes manifest to them that it is the truth. Is it not enough that your Lord is Witness over all things? (Al Quran 41:53)
PBS: Quantum Entanglement to Unentangle Your Mind
Everything is a Miracle According to the Holy Quran and Albert Einstein Epigraph: He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that […]
Why is There Anything At All: The Seminal Question that Leads Us To God
Epigraph: هُوَ الْأَوَّلُ وَالْآخِرُ وَالظَّاهِرُ وَالْبَاطِنُ ۖ وَهُوَ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيمٌ Allah is the First and the Last, and the Manifest and the Hidden, and He knows all things full well. (Al […]
Javed Ahmed Ghamidi Beginning to Include Evolution in His Theology
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comment I am very fond of Javed Ahmed Ghamidi, so I keep listening to him. I am very glad that Ghamidi has more recently opened […]
Video: Why is There Something Rather than Nothing?
Epigraph: بَدِيعُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۖ وَإِذَا قَضَىٰ أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees something, He says only, ‘Be,’ […]
Dawkins Versus Nietzsche: End Result of Atheism?
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Richard Dawkins writes in his book, the God Delusion: “Being an atheist is nothing to be apologetic about. On the […]
The Muslims, the Christians and the Atheists Need to Talk: While the Majority In Indonesia and Turkey See the Necessity of God for Morality, Only 15% of French Do
% who say it is necessary to believe in God to be moral: 🇮🇩Indonesia 96% 🇵🇭Philippines 96% 🇳🇬Nigeria 93% 🇧🇷Brazil 84% 🇮🇳India 79% 🇹🇷Turkey 75% 🇲🇽Mexico 55% 🇺🇸U.S. 44% 🇷🇺Russia […]
Quran Says All Animals are Communities and Science Says Even the Bacteria
Epigraph: There is not an animal that crawls in the earth, nor a bird that flies on its two wings, but they are communities like you. We have left out nothing in the Book. Then to their Lord shall they be gathered together. (Al Quran 6:38) Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor […]
Pitching the Best of Atheism Against the Best of Theism in Abrahamic Faiths
Remarks and Poem by Hamza Yusuf for Alvin Plantinga Templeton Prize 2017 Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says Epigraph: Soon We will show them Our Signs […]
Remarks and Poem by Hamza Yusuf for Alvin Plantinga Templeton Prize 2017
Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says Epigraph: Soon We will show them Our Signs in all parts of the earth, and among their own psychology until it […]
Nabeel Qureshi: A Muslim Convert to Christianity: Making Up Trinity in the Old Testament
Epigraph: O People of the Book, exceed not the limits in your religion, and say not of Allah anything but the truth. Indeed, the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was only […]