Cousin Marriages: A Fair and Balanced View
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comments: Please read my thoughts in the comment section below, […]
Debate: Is it time for all religions to accept evolution?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD First something about the big picture, Christian apologists want to make a case for Christianity based on laws of nature and science, […]
Clone a Neanderthal baby for the Sake of Science and Religion
Epigraph: “The Christian resolve to find the world evil and ugly, has made the world evil and ugly.” Friedrich Nietzsche Artist’s representation of a modern man and neanderthal side by […]
Morality: It’s not just for humans
By Elizabeth Landau, CNN updated 10:49 AM EST, Sat January 19, 2013 http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&contentId=living/2013/01/15/orig-ideas-contagious-yawns-primates.cnn Lawrenceville, Georgia (CNN) — You might recognize prominent primatologist Frans de Waal from lectures he has given about […]
Al Jahiz: A Darwin Centuries Before Charles Darwin
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Al-Jāḥiẓ Born 776 Basra, Abbasid Caliphate Died 869 Basra, Abbasid Caliphate Era Medieval era Region Muslim scholar Main interests Arabic literature Influenced[show] al-Jāḥiẓ (in Arabic الجاحظ) (real name Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr al-Kinani al-Basri) (born in Basra, 781 – December 868/January 869) was an […]
Scientific American ignoring the Elephant in the Room: Darwinian Evolution: Islam or Christianity?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Last week, John Horgan, a teacher at Stevens Institute of Technology, published an article in Scientific American titled, […]
Journey of Man: A Genetic Odessy
By Spencer Wells DNA is more than 99% similar among all humans, so all claims for discrimination, like caste system, polygenetic theory of human origin or some people being the ‘chosen people’ are only self indulgence. There is very little difference in the intellectual abilities of different races or families. […]
Switzerland seeks to confirm top research spot
by Andreas Keiser, swissinfo.ch Switzerland tops all major research and innovation rankings worldwide, largely thanks to generous funding and a clear separation between public and private research, as well as […]
Gurdon and Yamanaka share Nobel prize for stem cell work
Source: BBC Two pioneers of stem cell research have shared the Nobel prize for medicine or physiology. John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan were awarded the prize for changing adult cells into stem cells, which can become any other type of cell in the body. Prof […]
Siberian Discovery Could Bring Scientists Closer to Cloning Woolly Mammoth
Source: Time Magazine The key to cloning a woolly mammoth may be locked into the Siberian permafrost. At least, that’s what scientists in the blustery Russian tundra are hoping. An […]
New monkey discovered
By David McKenzie, CNN Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) — Scientists are claiming they have discovered a new species of monkey living in the remote forests of the Democratic Republic of […]
Papua New Guinea Doesn’t need Jesus for Salvation
Heading of the news is modified by the Editor Source of the news: BBC The DNA of a cave girl who lived about 80,000 years ago has been analysed in […]
Father’s Age Is Linked to Risk of Autism and Schizophrenia
Source: NY Times. Older men are more likely than young ones to father a child who develops autism or schizophrenia, because of random mutations that become more numerous with advancing paternal age, scientists reported on Wednesday, in the first study to quantify the effect as it builds each year. The […]
Genetically engineering ‘ethical’ babies is a moral obligation, says Oxford professor
Daily Telegraph: Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a “moral obligation” as it makes them grow up into “ethically better children”. The expert in […]
Many human ‘prototypes’ coexisted in Africa
Source: BBC By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News Fossils from Northern Kenya show that a new species of human lived two million years ago, researchers say. The discoveries suggests […]
Video: Biologist Kenneth Miller on Free Will and Quantum Physics
Our physics has to allow for free will and even though nineteenth century physics only suggested determinism, Quantum physics has provided, at least possible avenue, for both free will and Providence of God, at the same time.
The Ecology of Disease
Source: NT Times. By JIM ROBBINS Published: July 14, 2012 THERE’S a term biologists and economists use these days — ecosystem services — which refers to the many ways nature supports the human endeavor. Forests filter the water we drink, for example, and birds and bees pollinate crops, both […]
Fiji delegation contributes towards biodiversity science
USP Home » News @ USP Print Fiji delegation contributes towards establishment of major international biodiversity science policy Back to News » Members of the Fiji delegation that attended the Panama meeting: Mr Rahul Chand, Coordinator of the Fiji National Biodiversity Strategic Action Plan and Professor Randy Thaman from USP, who served […]
Clearing Mercury overload by DMPS chelation
By Dr Amtul Qudoos Farhat, MBBS, DCH (UK), FCPS (Pakistan) Assistant Professor, Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Pakistan DMPS-Dimaval Dimercapto Propane Sulfonate DMPS is the drug used to chelate or remove Mercury from body. It is agreed to be a powerful chelating agent for mercury(1, 12). It is given intravenously and […]