Huff Post: by Steve McSwain — Jesus did not come to create some new religion. Bishop Desmond Tutu is right when he says, “God is not a Christian.” Jesus no more set out to begin “Christianity” than Buddha set out to establish “Buddhism.” These religions, or philosophies, were creations of […]
Source: BBC DNA analysis of early human remains from a Siberian cave has revealed the existence of a mystery human species. A team of researchers speculates that this could have […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I believe that the theory of evolution should be understood as three different issues. Firstly, the common […]
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Source: Huffington Post Our early ancestors may have been cleverer than we once thought. An international team of researchers said last week they had found evidence that sophisticated weapons once thought to be unique to early humans were in use tens of thousands of years before Homo sapiens first walked […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times This article is a summary of the address of Pope John Paul II to the Pontifical […]
Y chromosome analysis moves Adam closer to Eve Source: Science News By Erin Wayman Web edition: August 1, 2013 Print edition: September 7, 2013; Vol.184 #5 (p. 14) Genetic studies […]
Suggested reading For Darwin Day, 6 facts about the evolution debate Islam’s evolutionary legacy ڈارون سے ہزار برس قبل نظریۂ ارتقا پیش کرنے والا مسلمان مفکر کون تھا؟ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia al-Jāḥiẓ (Arabic: الجاحظ) (full name Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Kinānī al-Baṣrī أبو عثمان عمرو بن بحر الكناني البصري) (born in Basra, 781 – December 868/January […]
By Sazzad Khandakar July 26, 2013 It is the holy month of Ramadhan. Muslims all across the world engage themselves in dawn to dusk fasting as it was prescribed by God in the Holy Quran. In chapter 2, vs 184, God commands men to fast and mentions that it was prescribed for […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Since my visits to Hawaii islands and Bermuda, starting in 2004, I have become a staunch […]
William Lane Craig (born August 23, 1949[1]) is an American analytic philosopher, theologian, and Christian apologist.[2] He works in the philosophy of religion, philosophy of time, and the defense of Christian theism.[3] He revived interest in theKalām cosmological argument[citation […]
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 […]
Huff Post Science: Cara Santa Maria Happy Darwin Day! February 12th marks the anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. In celebration, I managed to dig up some little known details about his life. I spoke with David Quammen, author of “The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the […]
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 […]
dnaindia: ANI: The structure of the universe and the laws that govern its growth may be more similar than previously thought to the structure and growth of the human brain […]
Huffiington Post: Evangelical anti-abortion advocacy rests on a surprisingly flimsy foundation. And exposing that fact makes establishment evangelical leaders nervous. On Nov. 7, Christianity Today published a feature-length article on the front page of its website that was its second such article responding to an op-ed I wrote for CNN. In the op-ed, titled “When […]
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, […]
Scientific American: John Horgan: I’m teaching Darwin again this semester, in two separate courses, and I’m confronted with a familiar dilemma: How should I respond to students who reject evolutionary […]
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. […]