Debate: Does Free Will Lead to God?
Epigraph: “Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the […]
The Fifth Column That the Theists Need: The Line Up of Deniers of Free Will
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Almost 80% of top scientists, physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers are atheists. I as a theist stand little chance […]
Albert Einstein: The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible
Epigraph: There truly are signs in the creation of the heavens and earth, and in the alternation of night and day, for those with understanding, who remember God standing, sitting, and lying down, who reflect on the creation of the heavens and earth: ‘Our Lord! You have not created all […]
From Abstract Objects to God
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Results from the 2020 PhilPapers survey, with responses from nearly 1,800 philosophers (mainly from North America, Europe, and […]
How God Interacts With the Universe: Grants Prayers, Guided Evolution, and Delivers Miracles At Times?
Epigraph God’s is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; He gives life and He causes death; and He has power over all things. He is the First and […]
Avicenna’s Ontological Argument for the Existence of God from the Crown Verse
Epigraph: God: there is no god but Him, the Ever Living, (الْقَيُّومُ) the Self-Subsisting. Neither slumber nor sleep overtakes Him. All that is in the heavens and in the earth […]
Abu Yusuf Ya’qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi’s Presentation of the Cosmological Argument
Promoted Post: The Glorious Quran: A Comprehensive Presentation of the Cosmological Argument Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Abu Yusuf Ya’qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi […]
The Glorious Quran: A Comprehensive Presentation of the Cosmological Argument
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,’ […]
If You Feel Existence of God, You Don’t Need to Prove to Atheists, Like You Don’t Need To Demonstrate Your Spousal Love to Others
The sensus divinitatis in Christianity and Islam Epigraph: Oh Prophet, when your Lord took out the offspring from the loins of the Children of Adam and made them bear witness […]
Nobel Laureate and Recipient of the Templeton Award: Frank Wilczek: By Studying God’s Work We Discover Who God Is!
Epigraph: الَّذِي خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَمَاوَاتٍ طِبَاقًا ۖ مَّا تَرَىٰ فِي خَلْقِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ مِن تَفَاوُتٍ ۖ فَارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ هَلْ تَرَىٰ مِن فُطُورٍ ثُمَّ ارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ كَرَّتَيْنِ يَنقَلِبْ إِلَيْكَ الْبَصَرُ خَاسِئًا وَهُوَ حَسِيرٌ He […]
Can We Trust Our Reasoning: Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Alvin Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (EAAN) challenges the coherence of simultaneously holding beliefs in both naturalism […]
Georg Cantor’s Transfinite Numbers and the Infinite God of Abrahamic Faiths
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Georg Cantor (1845–1918), the pioneering mathematician renowned for developing set theory and introducing the concept of transfinite numbers, […]
Reemergence of Al Ghazali’s Occasionalism Given Recent Simulation Hypothesis
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Occasionalism is a philosophical doctrine asserting that all causal interactions are mediated by a divine agent, with created substances lacking inherent causal efficacy. This concept was notably developed by both the Islamic theologian Al-Ghazali and the French philosopher […]
Mother Mary As God Bearer: Is it Biologically Possible?
Epigraph: Glory be to Allah! He is far higher than what they ascribe to Him, the Creator of the heavens and earth! How could He have children when He has […]
Two Natures of Jesus: Can God Make a Square Circle or a Finite Infinity?
Epigraph: God: there is no god but Him, the Ever Living, the Ever Watchful. Neither slumber nor sleep overtakes Him. All that is in the heavens and in the earth […]
Schrodinger’s Cat to Show Us, Marvel of God’s Creation and Our Consciousness
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 […]
Journey to Monotheism: Five Short Testimonies
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 […]
David Bentley Hart: An Insightful Eastern Orthodox theologian and philosopher
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times There is so much common in the Abrahamic faiths, between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The believers often dwell […]
Different Philosophers Arguing God from Consciousness
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The argument from consciousness is an argument for the existence of God that claims characteristics of human consciousness (such as qualia) cannot be explained by the physical […]
Arguing God from Consciousness
Epigraph: And they ask you concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul is by the command of my Lord; and of the knowledge thereof you have been given but a little.’ […]