The Denial of Free Will: Philosophers and Scientists Who Call It an Illusion
Epigraph: And they ask you concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul (human consciousness and free will) is by the command of my Lord; and of the knowledge thereof you have […]
Atheist Philosophers and Scientists Possessed by Laplace’s Demon
Epigraph The Crashing Blow! What is the Crashing Blow? What will explain to you what the Crashing Blow is? On a Day when people will be like scattered moths and […]
Why Each Photon of Light is An Exhibit that Al Ghazali May Have the Last Laugh
Epigraph God is the Light of the heavens and earth. His Light is like this: there is a niche, and in it a lamp, the lamp inside a glass, a […]
Ghazali’s Occasionalism, The Miracle of Light and the Crown Verse of the Quran
Epigraph God: there is no god but Him, the Ever Living, the Ever Watchful. Neither slumber nor sleep overtakes Him. All that is in the heavens and in the earth […]
Debate: Does Free Will Lead to God?
Epigraph: “Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the […]
Alex O’Connor Nicely Explains Peter van Inwagen’s Defense of Free Will
Mystery of Quantum Physics: Do We Need it to Understand Free Will and Providence … Presented by Zia H Shah MD Fred Alan Wolf, who is interviewed in the above video, is an American theoretical physicist specializing in quantum physics and the relationship between […] Neuroplasticity and Meditation Show Freewill […]
The Fifth Column That the Theists Need: The Line Up of Deniers of Free Will
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Almost 80% of top scientists, physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers are atheists. I as a theist stand little chance […]
The Best Defense for Theism: Civil War Among Atheists Fighting for Free Will
Epigraph: “Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the […]
Henry P. Stapp’s Presentation of Consciousness
Epigraph: سَنُرِيهِمْ آيَاتِنَا فِي الْآفَاقِ وَفِي أَنفُسِهِمْ حَتَّىٰ يَتَبَيَّنَ لَهُمْ أَنَّهُ الْحَقُّ ۗ أَوَلَمْ يَكْفِ بِرَبِّكَ أَنَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ شَهِيدٌ We shall show them Our signs upon the horizons and […]
Free Will Incompatibilists: Spinoza, Robert Sapolsky, Derk Pereboom and Galen Strawson
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Most of the Muslims are Muslims by tradition. They have been born into Muslim families, […]
Defense of Free Will by Kevin Mitchell
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times In his book Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will, neuroscientist Kevin J. Mitchell presents a compelling argument that free will is not an illusion but a natural outcome of evolutionary processes. He contends that living organisms, […]
Atheist Philosophers and Scientists Possessed by Laplace’s Demon
Epigraph The Crashing Blow! What is the Crashing Blow? What will explain to you what the Crashing Blow is? On a Day when people will be like scattered moths and […]
Schrodinger’s Cat to Show Us, Marvel of God’s Creation and Our Consciousness
Epigraph: We will show them Our Signs in the universe and also among their own selves, until it becomes manifest to them that the Quran is the truth. (Al Quran […]
Peter van Inwagen: In Defense of Incompatibilism
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Free will is a very important and ubiquitous debate in modern philosophy, which ultimately has a great relevance […]
JP Moreland’s Exposition of Human Consciousness, Free Will and Soul
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times James Porter Moreland (born March 9, 1948), better known as J. P. Moreland, is an American philosopher, theologian, and Christian apologist. He is […]
Compatibilism in Free Will and Its History
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Compatibilism is the philosophical position asserting that free will and determinism are not mutually exclusive—that individuals can possess free will even in a causally determined universe. This perspective has been explored and defended by numerous philosophers throughout history, […]
Interpretations of Libet’s Findings for and against free will
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times 1. Free Will as Illusory Some philosophers and neuroscientists interpret Libet’s findings as evidence that free will does […]
Sam Harris Versus Daniel Dennett on Free Will
One good refutation of compatibilism of both Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett is a short put-down by Searle: Both Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett are in this quandary because they have chosen wrong fundamentals. They are committed to determinism and have decided to refuse free will or possibility of human […]