Can AI be Conscious: A Billion Dollar Question?
Epigraph And they ask you concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul is by the command of my Lord; and of the knowledge thereof you have been given but a little.’ […]
We Dream, Therefore God Is!
Epigraph: He (Allah) is the Knower of the unseen; and He reveals not His secrets to any one, except to him whom He chooses, namely a Messenger of His. (Al Quran […]
Free Will: It’s the Best Proof for Providence of God
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Denial of God and Afterlife go hand in hand according to the Islamic theology. Denial of free will is a refusal of […]
Michael Heller: Templeton Award-winner 2008, Denies Intelligent Design Movement
Epigraph وَهُوَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ بِالْحَقِّ ۖ وَيَوْمَ يَقُولُ كُن فَيَكُونُ ۚ قَوْلُهُ الْحَقُّ ۚ وَلَهُ الْمُلْكُ يَوْمَ يُنفَخُ فِي الصُّورِ ۚ عَالِمُ الْغَيْبِ وَالشَّهَادَةِ ۚ وَهُوَ الْحَكِيمُ الْخَبِيرُ It is He who created the heavens and the earth […]
‘Belief in the Unseen’ Versus Metaphysical Naturalism
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times In the very beginning of the Quran we read: This is the perfect Book, free from all doubt; […]
Philosophy of Science and What is Ultimate Truth
… … … … The Science and Religion Dialogue or Debate — The Most Important Philosophy Epigraph: هُوَ اللَّهُ الَّذِي لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ۖ عَالِمُ الْغَيْبِ وَالشَّهَادَةِ ۖ هُوَ الرَّحْمَٰنُ الرَّحِيمُ He is […]
How Could Most Mathematicians Believe in Heaven, But Not in God?
Epigraph: He is the First and the Last, and the Manifest and the Hidden, and He knows all things full well. (Al Quran 57:3) We have created the heavens and […]
Quran: Is This God Speaking or Muhammad?
Epigraph وَمِن كُلِّ شَيْءٍ خَلَقْنَا زَوْجَيْنِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ Of everything We have created pairs that you may reflect. (Al Quran 51:49) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of […]
Videos: Would Extra Dimensions, Some Day Explain the Mystery of Consciousness?
Epigraph: And they ask you (Muhammad) concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul is by the command of my Lord; and of the knowledge thereof you have been given but a […]
Why Physicalism is Not True: If Mathematics is ‘Discovered,’ God Exists
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Many if not most present day scientists and philosophers in the West are atheists, so no wonder that […]
Laws of Nature and Mathematics are not Eternal or Platonic
Epigraph: He is the First and the Last, and the Manifest and the Hidden, and He knows all things full well. (Al Quran 57:3) Written and collected by Zia H Shah […]
Paid in full with one glass of cold milk
Epigraph: What will explain to you what the steep path is? It is to free a slave. It is to feed at a time of hunger. An orphaned relative. Or […]
Why does the Science of Consciousness Need a Muslim Theologian and a Sleep Specialist?
Epigraph And among His Signs is your sleep by night and day, and your seeking of His bounty. In that surely are Signs for a people who hear. (Al Quran […]
Video: William Lane Craig in Quest of the Historical Adam and My Muslim Perspective
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I may have been one of the first writers, to write about Historical Adam in 2008, in a […]
An Agnostic Jew, Robert Lawrence Kuhn: Can God Face Up To Evil?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times In the above video, philosopher Stephen Law, around minute 6 of the video, puts all the evidence for […]
Videos: Quantum Physics Providing for Freewill and Divine Providence?
Epigraph Whoever does good does it for himself and whoever does evil does it against himself: your Lord is never unjust to His creatures. (Al Quran 41:46) God does not […]
Book Review: Don’t Let Mathematicians and Physicists Steal Your God
Epigraph Which is harder to create: you people or the sky that He built, raising it high and perfecting it, giving darkness to its night and bringing out its morning […]
Who Created God? John Lennox at The Veritas Forum at UCLA
Epigraph: He is the First and the Last, and the Manifest and the Hidden, and He knows all things full well. (Al Quran 57:3) Suggested reading Trinity: An apple cannot […]
Being Grateful to Allah for Not One Big Bang, But for Infinite Number of Them
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 they not then […]
The Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner: A Quranic Commentary for the 21st Century
Epigraph: He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is […]