Are the Mathematicians Looking for God, When They Worship Mathematics?
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 […]
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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
Periodic Table in Chemistry was Revealed in a Dream
Answers in Your Dreams When you dream, you enter an alternative state of consciousness—a time when true inspiration can strike BY DEIRDRE BARRETT Source: Scientific American As a young mathematician in […]
What Does the “Unreasonable Effectiveness” of Mathematics Mean?
Epigraph: وَمَا خَلَقْنَا السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ We have created the heavens and the earth and all that is between the two in accordance with the perfect truth and […]
How Could ESP Work? | Episode 1508 | Closer To Truth
GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ — About three in four Americans profess at least one paranormal belief, according to a recent Gallup survey. The most popular is extrasensory perception (ESP), mentioned by 41%, followed closely by belief in haunted houses (37%). The full list of items includes: Believe in % Extrasensory […]
Laws of Nature and Mathematics are not Eternal or Platonic
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) Written and collected by Zia H Shah […]
Why do We Have a Faith: An Agnostic’s Perspective
Epigraph: [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 […]
Where Do the Laws of Nature Come From, Does it Lead Us to God
… … I now believe that to call anything necessary other than God is a form of Pantheism. In the above video Paul Davies is suggesting that mathematics is platonic and exists out there. But, then I am convinced on the basis of the following video that mathematics is creation […]
Video: Arguing God from the First Cause
Epigraph He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is […]
The Science and Religion Dialogue or Debate — The Most Important Philosophy
Epigraph: هُوَ اللَّهُ الَّذِي لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ۖ عَالِمُ الْغَيْبِ وَالشَّهَادَةِ ۖ هُوَ الرَّحْمَٰنُ الرَّحِيمُ He is Allah, and there is no God beside Him, the Knower of the unseen and the seen. […]
Biophylic Universe: An Epiphany, Multiverse or a Brute Fact?
In the above video George F. R. Ellis nicely lays out reasons why multiverse is not science and does not prove anything.
Video: The Mystery of Freewill
… … … If there is freewill, so is Providence: Refuting the best of atheism through the latest science Epigraph: And He (Allah) gave you all that you wanted of […]
Human Soul: Personal Identity and Continuity and Afterlife?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Listening to numerous videos by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, I had an epiphany today: many an atheist physicist and computer specialists, feel sure that science can create replica of human consciousness someday, but at the same time they feel […]
International Court of Justice Rules in Favor of Palestinians and South Africa — Look at the Details
Epigraph: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” Martin Luther King Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have ordered Israel to take […]
How Ideology Misleads Very Smart Biologists and Mathematicians
Video reviewed by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times In the very beginning of the above video the participants come swinging against Darwin. I am not opining about […]
Why does the Science of Consciousness Need a Muslim Theologian and a Sleep Specialist?
Epigraph And among His Signs is your sleep by night and day, and your seeking of His bounty. In that surely are Signs for a people who hear. (Al Quran […]