This Tooth Holds New Clues About Our Prehistoric Relatives
Source: Huffington Post Thanks to a single tooth, scientists are now sinking their teeth into a human family tree mystery — exactly who were the Denisovans? Our distant cousin the […]
Life on Earth may have started almost instantaneously
Source: Business Insider You might be inclined to think that something as complex as life should be rare, and that it probably took a very long time to come into […]
Prohibit Genetically Engineered Babies Full Debate- Intelligence Squared U.S
Published on Feb 14, 2013 Imagine a world free of genetic diseases, where parents control their offspring’s height, eye color and intelligence. The science may be closer than you think. […]
Cousin Marriage – Why? – Why Not?
Source: Muslim Sunrise, Fall 2015 By Dr. Lutf ur Rehman, Nashville, Tennessee Marriage between people with a common grandparent or between people who share another relatively recent ancestor is called […]
Genetic disorders
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A genetic disorder is a genetic problem caused by one or more abnormalities in the genome, especially a condition that is present from birth (congenital). Most genetic disorders are quite rare and affect one person in every several thousands or millions. Genetic disorders may or […]
Mushrooms May Really Be Magic After All
Source: Huffington Post By Lila Shapiro; Senior Staff Reporter, The Huffington Post New study suggests mushroom spores can make it rain. A typical mushroom shoots tens of thousands of spores into the […]
Charles Darwin: An Epiphany for the Muslims, A Catastrophe for the Christians
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The National Museum of Natural History, located on the National Mall just across from the Smithsonian castle, is America’s […]
Video: Dawkins on Dr. Ben Carson’s creationist beliefs
Richard Dawkins, a scientist & author, wonders how GOP candidate Ben Carson, a distinguished doctor, can question evolution – the bedrock of biology. Watch the Video in CNN Fully two-thirds […]
Challenging Ben Carson to a Written Debate About Facts of Evolution from Molecular Biology
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Republican presidential contender Ben Carson restated his views on creationism Sunday (Nov. 1), wrapping up his weekend […]
Charles Darwin: An Epiphany for the Muslims, A Catastrophe for the Christians
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The National Museum of Natural History, located on the National Mall just across from the Smithsonian castle, is America’s […]
Book Review: Saving the Original Sinner: How Christians Have Used the Bible’s First Man to Oppress
Saving the Original Sinner: How Christians Have Used the Bible’s First Man to Oppress, Inspire, and Make Sense of the World Source: Amazon Book by Karl W. Giberson (Author) A […]
Religious Evolution According to Qur’an & Torah
The Qur’an teaches us that, unlike other creatures, the modern humans who are anthropologically classified as Homo sapiens sapiens have been created to be Allah’s Vice-regents (deputies or agents) on […]
From ‘Dracula’ fish to snub-nosed monkeys: New species found in Himalayas
(CNN) Most people hate rainy weather. It can put a damper on plans and keep you cooped up indoors. But spare a thought for the Burmese snub-nosed monkey. The furry fellow […]
Liquid water exists on Mars, boosting hopes for life there, NASA says
Epigraph: Do not the disbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were a closed-up mass, then We opened them out? And We made from water every living thing. Will […]
Whale kayak couple: ‘We thought we were going to die’
16 September 2015 Last updated at 21:18 BST A couple who survived a close encounter with a humpback whale while kayaking have spoken of how they “thought [they] were going […]
The Ugly Nationalist Politics of Human Origins
Source: The Daily Beast By Candida Moss The world was abuzz this week over a new human ancestor species found in South Africa. It is just the latest in a race […]
Homo naledi: New species of human ancestor discovered in South Africa
http://player.theplatform.com/p/2E2eJC/nbcNewsOffsite?guid=f_fossils_150910 By David McKenzie and Hamilton Wende, CNN Updated 6:49 AM ET, Thu September 10, 2015 | Video below source: CNN Rising Star Cave, South Africa (CNN) When an amateur caver […]
In ‘non-religious’ Japan, the shrine can still exert a pull
………… It’s a common refrain at Japan’s more than 80,000 shrines and temples. Yet evidence of an instinctive spirituality that infuses daily life can be spotted across the country, from […]
BBC Debate: Is it time for all religions to accept evolution?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times First something about the big picture, Christian apologists want to make a case for Christianity based […]
Real-life ‘Jurassic Park’? Siberian lab set to clone extinct mammals
Source: RT.com Real-life ‘Jurassic Park’? Siberian lab set to clone extinct mammals Russian scientists have begun their quest to clone pre-historic animals, including but not limited to a woolly mammoth, […]