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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
The Glorious Quran: There Are Additional Dimensions of Our Universe
By Zia H Shah MD The Quran repeatedly says that Allah is the creator of everything in the earth, the heavens and what is between the two. In the Quran, […]
Would Intelligent Aliens Undermine God? Not if the Quran Already Predicted Them
Epigraph Allah is He, Who created seven heavens and of the earth a similar number. (Al Quran 65:12) And among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and the […]
Atheists Deny God, But Not Mathematics or Laws of Nature
Epigraph: هُوَ الَّذِي جَعَلَ الشَّمْسَ ضِيَاءً وَالْقَمَرَ نُورًا وَقَدَّرَهُ مَنَازِلَ لِتَعْلَمُوا عَدَدَ السِّنِينَ وَالْحِسَابَ ۚ مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ ذَٰلِكَ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ ۚ يُفَصِّلُ الْآيَاتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَعْلَمُونَ إِنَّ فِي اخْتِلَافِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ وَمَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ […]
Sometimes Quantum Physics Creates Universe and Multiverse and Sometimes It Disallows Freewill
Creating universe and multiverse … Refusing Freewill
Quantum Mechanics: A Magical Wand to Explain a Universe from Nothing, Freewill, Consciousness and Providence?
Epigraph: We will show them Our Signs in the universe and also among their own selves, until it becomes manifest to them that the Quran is the truth. (Al Quran […]
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: Genocide is Wrong
Israeli minister says it may be ‘moral’ to starve 2 million Gazans, but ‘no one in the world would let us’ By Dana Karni, CNN Jerusalem CNN — Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said “it may be just and moral” to starve 2 million Gaza residents until Israeli hostages are […]
Multiverse: Prime your study with theistic leaning
Epigraph: We will show them Our Signs in the universe and also among their own selves, until it becomes manifest to them that the Quran is the truth. (Al Quran […]
Mathematics: What is Truth?
Allah created the universe or the multiverse through mathematics بِالْحَقِّ Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, as a chapter of upcoming book: The Quran and the Biological Evolution Galileo Galilei famously said, “Mathematics is the language in which […]
Different Responses: Why is there Anything At All?
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,’ […]
The Most Dramatic Conflict or Cognitive Dissonance in the Top Scientists, Mathematicians and Philosophers
Epigraph But they have no knowledge thereof. They follow nothing but conjecture; and conjecture avails naught against truth. (Al Quran 53:28) And most of them follow nothing but conjecture. Surely, […]
Quantum Physics: Determinism or Freewill?
Epigraph But they have no knowledge thereof. They follow nothing but conjecture; and conjecture avails naught against truth. (Al Quran 53:28) And most of them follow nothing but conjecture. Surely, […]
Video: A Mathematician’s Search For God
Epigraph: Allah is the Light of the heavens and of the earth. His light is as if there were a lustrous niche, ‘wherein is a lamp contained in a crystal […]
Video: Is Platonic Math in the Mind of God?
Epigraph: هُوَ الَّذِي جَعَلَ الشَّمْسَ ضِيَاءً وَالْقَمَرَ نُورًا وَقَدَّرَهُ مَنَازِلَ لِتَعْلَمُوا عَدَدَ السِّنِينَ وَالْحِسَابَ ۚ مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ ذَٰلِكَ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ ۚ يُفَصِّلُ الْآيَاتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَعْلَمُونَ إِنَّ فِي اخْتِلَافِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ وَمَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ […]
Ian Barbour’s Video: Trying to Resolve Religion and Science Conflict in Christianity
Epigraph: And those who disbelieve say, ‘This Quran is but a lie which Muhammad has forged, and other people have helped him with it.’ Indeed, they have brought forth an […]
Ernan McMullin: How Science Has Embellished Theology
Ernan Mcmullin is the first interviewee in the video. Ernan McMullin (October 13, 1924 – February 8, 2011) was an Irish philosopher who last served as the O’Hara Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. He was an internationally respected philosopher of science who has written and lectured extensively […]