Today is the Birthday of Darwin; How He Leads to Islam
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 […]
Modern fossil discovery rewrites human history
Source: CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN)Scientists have discovered the oldest known modern human fossil outside of Africa, estimated to be between 177,000 and 194,000 years old, according to a new study in […]
Scientists have discovered new fossils that change the traditional human origin story
Source: Independent Posted a day ago by Narjas Zatat in news The origin story for modern humans goes that Homo Sapiens evolved in Africa and then migrated out of the continent to the Asian continent in […]
Video: A closer look at ‘3.67m-year-old’ human skeleton
Source: BBC News It took 20 years to excavate, clean and put together Little Foot, whose skeleton was found in caves north of Johannesburg. Its exact age is debated, but […]
What Does the Quran Mean: O Mankind We Created You From a Male and a Female?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times For more than 1400 years, since the revelation of the Quran, all the Muslims have interpreted the verse, […]
Ted Talk: What separates us from chimpanzees? | Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall · Primatologist; environmentalist Jane Goodall, dubbed by her biographer “the woman who redefined man,” has changed our perceptions of primates, people, and the connection between the two. Over the past […]
Ted Talk: Beyond the “creation vs. evolution” debate
Ted Talk: Beyond the “creation vs. evolution” debate | Denis Lamoureux | Evolution & Creationism: Reframing the Controversy | Rafael Rivero | Decoding the missing link: Evidence for Evolution from […]
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 […]
Are Turkey’s schools dropping evolution and teaching jihad?
Source: BBC News By Selin GiritBBC News, Istanbul 22 August 2017 Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionThe new curriculum will affect five-year-olds, 10-year-olds and teenagers in year nine (file pic) “In Turkey, […]
In Turkey, Schools Will Stop Teaching Evolution This Fall
Source: NPR BY LAUREN FRAYER When children in Turkey head back to school this fall, something will be missing from their textbooks: any mention of evolution. The Turkish government is phasing […]
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 […]
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) This is […]