Uproar in Turkey over removing evolution from biology class
Source: Associated Press By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY ISTANBUL (AP) — Students in Turkey are returning to school Monday where they will be taught evolution for the last time in their biology […]
Javed Ahmad Ghamidi Joins the Long List of Scholars Who are Ignorant about Evolution
This is an Urdu video. Suggested Reading about Evolution and Religion Exposing Creationism of Zakir Naik, Tahir ul Qadari, Yusuf Estes and Harun Yahya Encyclopedia Britannica: Just How Old Is Homo sapiens? […]
CNN Video: 66-million-year-old dinosaur skull uncovered
Construction crews in Colorado uncovered a fossil. Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s Joe Sertich says it’s a triceratops skeleton and skull that is at least 66 million years old. […]
Amazon study discovers 381 new species in two-year period
Source: BBC Researchers have discovered 381 new species during a two-year study in the Amazon region. The report by the WWF conservation body and Brazil’s Mamiraua Institute for Sustainable Development said that […]
In pictures: 2017 Galapagos photography competition
Source: BBC The winners have been announced for a photography competition capturing wildlife and scenery from across the Galapagos Islands. Please see the pictures in BBC Suggested Reading and Viewing […]
Discovery of 13 million-year-old ape skull shows what human ancestors may have looked like
Source: Washington Post By Amy B Wang To the untrained eye, the area west of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya appears to be barren of anything but rocky hills and […]
Can Buddhist Practices Help Us Overcome The Biological Pull Of Dissatisfaction?
Source: NPR BY TERRY GROSS Are human beings hard-wired to be perpetually dissatisfied? Author Robert Wright, who teaches about the interface of evolutionary biology and religion, thinks so. Wright points out that […]
Move over T-Rex, there’s a bigger fossil in town
Suggested Reading Encyclopedia Britannica: Just How Old Is Homo sapiens? The Single Quranic Verse that Can Convince You about Evolution Meeting the Quranic Adam with Charles Darwin TheQuran.Love: Surah Baqara (The Cow): Section […]
Gene editing: Gateway to Promised Land, or key to Pandora’s box?
Source: Religion News Service By Yonat Shimron | August 3, 2017 (RNS) — News that scientists for the first time successfully edited genes in human embryos created a stir this week. In the […]
Human embryos edited to stop disease
Source: BBC News By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News website Image copyrightOHSUImage captionPictures of the genetically modified embryos Scientists have, for the first time, successfully freed embryos […]
Encyclopedia Britannica: Just How Old Is Homo sapiens?
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica By John P. Rafferty In scientific classification, human beings are tagged with the name Homo sapiens (Latin: “wise man”). In his 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Swedish botanist and taxonomist Carl Linnaeuscoined the term […]
Scientists, theologians ponder if latest biological findings are more compatible with religion
Source: Religion News Service By Tom Heneghan | July 28, 2017 OXFORD, England (RNS) — When Charles Darwin published his landmark theory of evolution by natural selection in the 19th century, religious leaders […]
The Single Quranic Verse that Can Convince You about Evolution
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Allah has advised us to read the Quran on a daily basis. (Al Quran 17:78/79) This is […]
Ted Talk: How Quantum Biology Might Explain Life’s Biggest Questions | Jim Al-Khalili |
How does a robin know to fly south? The answer might be weirder than you think: Quantum physics may be involved. Jim Al-Khalili rounds up the extremely new, extremely […]
Turkey Bans Teaching of Evolution and the Muslim Times’ Response
Turkey Bans Teaching of Evolution and the Muslim Times’ Response Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) Turkish high school students will no longer be taught the theory of evolution. The subject has been cut […]
Secrets of the Mind Nova
Source: Youtube A blind man can see. Another feels pain in his missing arm. One believes he’s God. A son thinks his parents are imposters. Are their thoughts real or […]
‘My deja vu is so bad I can’t tell what’s real’
Source: BBC By Pat Long From Mosaic 31 May 2017 One drab afternoon a few years ago something very unusual happened to me. I was lounging under a tree in […]
Meet Zuul, the new dinosaur species named after ‘Ghostbusters’ demon
Source: USA Today Traci Watson, Special for USA TODAY When scientists needed a name for a newfound dinosaur with wicked horns and protruding spikes, they knew exactly who to call. […]
BBC: Amazing haul of ancient human finds unveiled
Source: BBC By Paul Rincon; Science editor, BBC News website A new haul of ancient human remains has been described from an important cave site in South Africa. The finds, […]
Today is the Birthday of David Attenborough: A Cordial Invitation to him to be a Theist
Epigraph Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He has power over all things;Who has created death and life that He might try you — which of […]
