Analyzing Free Will with Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD In this video, episode number 910, Kuhn and the first interviewee start off with false dilemma of determinism and indeterminism. Indeterminism is […]
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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
Free Will: It’s the Best Proof for Providence of God
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Denial of God and Afterlife go hand in hand according to the Islamic theology. Denial of free will is a refusal of […]
Closer to Truth Video: How Could God Intervene in the Universe?
Epigraph God is the Light of the heavens and earth. His Light is like this: there is a niche, and in it a lamp, the lamp inside a glass, a […]
Michael Heller: Templeton Award-winner 2008, Denies Intelligent Design Movement
Epigraph وَهُوَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ بِالْحَقِّ ۖ وَيَوْمَ يَقُولُ كُن فَيَكُونُ ۚ قَوْلُهُ الْحَقُّ ۚ وَلَهُ الْمُلْكُ يَوْمَ يُنفَخُ فِي الصُّورِ ۚ عَالِمُ الْغَيْبِ وَالشَّهَادَةِ ۚ وَهُوَ الْحَكِيمُ الْخَبِيرُ It is He who created the heavens and the earth […]
National Peace Symposium 2024: David Spurdle National Peace Prize Recipient
David Spurdle was presented the Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize for his outstanding work to support orphans & underprivileged children around the world. #PeaceSymposiumUK pic.twitter.com/xqpV9eHN8a — Ahmadiyya UK (@AhmadiyyaUK) March 9, […]
Let Francis Collins Guide You into Guided Evolution
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 […]
Dr. Yasir Qadhi’s partial acceptance of evolution
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I have respectfully written this in interest of enhancing understanding of the Quran and putting anyone on the […]
Scopes and Limits of Science
… The last interviewee in the above video is talking about frequency of mutations and possibly suggesting a reason for guided evolution. The “blind spot” in science that’s fueling a […]
Why do a quarter of born Muslims leave Islam in USA?
The share of Americans who leave Islam is offset by those who become Muslim Source: Pew Research Center BY BESHEER MOHAMED AND ELIZABETH PODREBARAC SCIUPAC Like Americans in many other religious groups, a […]
Surah Tariq: Are We Made of Star Dust and How Did We Get Our Water?
How Did Water Get on Earth? Source: Scientific American BY EVERYDAY EINSTEIN SABRINA STIERWALT About 70 percent of our planet’s surface is covered with water, and it plays an important role […]
Video: Omer Suleiman Denying Human Evolution from Apes
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Even though, I appreciate Omer Suleiman’s work in many other spheres, I find no choice but to disagree […]
Primordial Covenant as the Basis of Religion: The Qur’ānic Mῑthāq of Alastu According to Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
By Mohd Farid bin Mohd Shahran[farid@ikim.gov.my Abstract In the philosophy of religion, apart from a cogent conception of God, a strong spiritual relation that binds human beings with God is another important element that supplies the raison d’etre to a particular religious tradition. This article evaluates one of the manifestations […]
The Case for Allah’s Existence in the Quran and Sunnah
In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful Knowledge of God’s existence is often taken for granted by believers. The authentic religious experience—affirmed again and again in a Muslim’s daily life—makes faith in God feel so natural as to be assumed. But belief in God and the quest for […]
The Primordial Covenant of Humanity: Did it Literally Happen?
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 […]
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 […]