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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
Video: Is the Natural Human Condition, to Believe in God?
Epigraph: Oh Prophet, when your Lord took out the offspring from the loins of the Children of Adam and made them bear witness about themselves, He said, ‘Am I not your Lord?’ and they replied, ‘Yes, we bear witness.’ So you cannot say on the Day of Resurrection, ‘We were […]
To Answer Who Created God, We Need to Understand Necessity
Alvin Carl Plantinga[a] (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology (particularly on issues involving epistemic justification), and logic. From 1963 to 1982, Plantinga taught at Calvin University before accepting an appointment as the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.[2] He later returned to […]
God of Einstein, Spinoza and Pantheism: Is it Possible to Nudge It to Deism and Theism?
Epigraph: We have created the heavens and the earth and all that is between the two in accordance with the perfect truth (mathematics) and wisdom. (Al Quran 15:85) Say, ‘O […]
How Could Most Mathematicians Believe in Heaven, But Not in God?
Epigraph: He is the First and the Last, and the Manifest and the Hidden, and He knows all things full well. (Al Quran 57:3) We have created the heavens and […]
Video: Do Religions Complement or Contradict?
Epigraph: Say, ‘People of the Book, let us arrive at a statement that is common to us all: we worship God alone, we ascribe no partner to Him, and none […]
A Short Story about Harriet Tubman
The following account is extracted from the first biography of Harriet Tubman, published in 1869 and in revised form in 1886; it rightly calls her “The Moses of Her People.” […]
The Quran and the Breathtaking Universe: Is This God Speaking or Muhammad?
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 […]
1616: The Roman Catholic Church officially prohibited Galileo Galilei from promoting the belief that the Earth revolves around the sun
26 Feb, 1616: The Roman Catholic Church officially prohibited Galileo Galilei from promoting or supporting the belief that the Earth revolves around the sun. pic.twitter.com/LeC3okysCl — Physics In History (@PhysInHistory) […]
The Quran and Creation Ex Nihilo: Is This God Speaking or Muhammad?
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 Quran and the Expanding Universe: Is This God Speaking or Muhammad?
Epigraph: And We have built the heavens as a manifestation of several of Our attributes, and surely We go on expanding the universe. (Al Quran 51:47) … Written and collected […]
Video: Is the Universe Theologically Ambiguous?
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 41:53) He is the Mighty, the Forgiving; Who created the seven heavens, one above the other. You will not see […]
Robert Lawrence Kuhn’s Videos: Why is There Anything At All?
Epigraph: Have they been created from nothing, or are they their own creators? Have they created the heavens and the earth? In truth they put no faith in anything. (Al Quran 52:35-36) … … … …
Fine Tuning or the Multiverse Theory: The Best Evidence for the Creator God
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 […]
Science and Islam – Ibn al-Haytham & Optics | Science Documentary by Jim Al-Khalili Professor of Physics
One Name to Know for Muslim Heritage: Prof. James al-Khalili Book Review: Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim al-Khalili Source: The Guardian Book reviewed by Tim Radford […]
Quran: Is This God Speaking or Muhammad?
Epigraph وَمِن كُلِّ شَيْءٍ خَلَقْنَا زَوْجَيْنِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ Of everything We have created pairs that you may reflect. (Al Quran 51:49) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of […]
Video: Near Death Experiences
… … There is life after death: Revived patients share out-of-body experiences in startling NYU report By Marc Lallanilla Published Sep. 15, 2023, 4:48 p.m. ET It’s not a deathbed myth: Our lives really do flash before our eyes when we die, according to a new report from the NYU Grossman School […]
Video: God is Eternal, In Time and Beyond Time at the Same Time
Epigraph He is the First and the Last, and the Manifest and the Hidden, and He knows all things full well. (Al Quran 57:3) …