Muhammad Appears In Top 10 Baby Name List For The First Time
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla The popular name for baby boys is a way for Muslim families to honor Islam’s founder, the Prophet Muhammad. The name Muhammad has broken […]
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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
Let Spencer Wells Build a Family Tree for All of Humanity in a Ted Talk
All humans share some common bits of DNA, passed down to us from our African ancestors. Geneticist Spencer Wells talks about how his Genographic Project will use this shared DNA […]
Erdogan opens Europe’s first ‘eco-mosque’ in Cambridge
Source: Al Jazeera Turkish government and singer Yusuf Islam among donors who developed mosque that relies on green energy. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has officially opened the Cambridge Central Mosque in […]
Jerusalem to host largest-ever event on anti-Semitism; Putin, Macron to attend
Source: The Times of Israel President Reuven Rivlin said Wednesday that some 30 world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron, will be coming to Israel […]
NY Times: The Real Face of Jesus
Source: NY Times By Mike Fillon Advances in forensic science reveal the most famous face in history. Originally published in December 2002, the Popular Mechanics article “The Real Face of Jesus” created a […]
147 nations call to halt ‘aid’ to Israeli settlements
Source: Jerusalem Post At the General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, they approved a resolution which called on the international community not to “render aid or assistance to illegal […]
Just 8% of the US Catholics say they are ‘very close’ with the clergy at their church
U.S. Catholics less likely than Protestants to express confidence in advice from clergy Source: Pew Research Center By Claire Gecewicz Most U.S. adults who attend religious services express confidence in […]
Neurobiology of Dreams and Revelation
Source: Muslim Sunrise Winter 2018 Volume. Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times In, “Ancient Greece and ancient Rome — people did not happen to […]
Video: Trump’s Actions ‘Worse Than Misconduct Of Any Prior President,’ Law Prof Testifies
Source: Huffington Post “If Congress fails to impeach here, then the impeachment process has lost all meaning,” UNC law professor Michael Gerhardt told Congress. A constitutional law scholar told a […]
The Muslim Times Leading the Way to Interfaith Tolerance Among Abrahamic Faiths
Suggested reading by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times A Slight Twist Makes David Attenborough a Great Teacher for God of the Abrahamic Faiths Majority of the Americans Believe […]
A Slight Twist Makes David Attenborough a Great Teacher for God of the Abrahamic Faiths
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Sir David Frederick Attenborough is an agnostic, for he focuses on the question of suffering. If that question […]
Trump says he doesn’t know Prince Andrew. Photos tell a different story
By Bianca Britton, CNN London (CNN) US President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday that he doesn’t know Britain’s Prince Andrew, despite being photographed with him on several occasions. “I […]
Stephen Colbert’s explanation of God starts with a story about broccoli. It’s not necessarily funny
Courtesy: Shukoor Ahmad, USA Suggested reading How Islam has Influenced Christian understanding of God Video: How Jesus Became God, by Prof. Bart Ehrman? Joel Osteen: Enlarging the Circle of Love 24 Video lectures: […]
Majority of the Americans Believe in Guided Evolution and God of Nature and the Quran
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 Evolution of Pew Research Center’s Survey Questions About the Origins and Development of Life on Earth
Source: Pew Research Center Have living things always existed in their present form, or did they evolve? And if evolution occurred, was a divine hand at play? Measuring public […]
Who Speaks for the Flesh and Blood 1.6 Billion Breathing Muslim Souls?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Quran describes the holy prophet Muhammad, may peace be on him, as mercy for the whole […]
Movie: Appealing to God, a Disoriented Space Alien Hopes There’s Help Out There
Source: New York Times By Rachel Saltz Dec. 19, 2014 No religions were harmed in the making of this film. That’s the gist of a title card that runs before […]
Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times As only the Islamophobes, who hate Islam or those Muslims, who want to enforce Shariah Law, of […]
Evolution: The elephant in the room, for both Christianity and Islam
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times An 11-ton African elephant has graced the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History’s Rotunda since 1959. Sometimes called the […]
Islam Does Not Inhibit Science
By T. O. Shanavas, author of the 2002.11.17 Metanexus: Views column Inshah Allah (Allah So Willing)-The Metaphysics of the Future, is a pediatrician in Adrian, Michigan. He serves as the […]
