If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The philosophical query, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, […]
The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It
Epigraph: الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ All praise belongs to Allah, Sustainer of all the worlds. (Al Quran 1:2) إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُمْسِكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ أَن تَزُولَا ۚ وَلَئِن زَالَتَا إِنْ أَمْسَكَهُمَا مِنْ […]
Why Did Dr. Abdus Salam Recite Two Quranic Verses in His Nobel Banquet Speech?
Epigraph: الَّذِي خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَمَاوَاتٍ طِبَاقًا ۖ مَّا تَرَىٰ فِي خَلْقِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ مِن تَفَاوُتٍ ۖ فَارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ هَلْ تَرَىٰ مِن فُطُورٍ ثُمَّ ارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ كَرَّتَيْنِ يَنقَلِبْ إِلَيْكَ الْبَصَرُ خَاسِئًا وَهُوَ حَسِيرٌ He […]
Alan Guth: Physicists Have No Clue Where Did the Laws of Nature Come From
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Alan H. Guth, a prominent theoretical physicist and cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is renowned for developing the inflationary universe model. This model addresses fundamental questions about the early universe’s rapid expansion and its implications […]
Videos: Different Philosophers, Physicists and Theologians on Why is There Anything at All?
Epigraph: بَدِيعُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۖ وَإِذَا قَضَىٰ أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees something, He says only, ‘Be,’ […]
Atheists versus Atheists: Daniel Dennett Finds the Very Idea of Zombies Incoherent
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Hear Daniel Dennett around minute 19 of this video, Dennett denies the very idea of zombies and the […]
How Libertarian or Real Freewill Leads to God
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 […]
Video: Why is There Something Rather than Nothing?
Epigraph: بَدِيعُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۖ وَإِذَا قَضَىٰ أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees something, He says only, ‘Be,’ […]
A British Convert to Islam: ‘I found Qur’an mother of all philosophies’
Epigraph If We had sent this Quran down to a mountain, you [Prophet] would have seen it humbled and split apart in its awe of God: We offer people such […]
George Lennox Tearing Apart Stephen Hawking and Lawrence Krauss
Epigraph: بَدِيعُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۖ وَإِذَا قَضَىٰ أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees something, He says only, ‘Be,’ and it is. (Al Quran 2:117) Have they been created from nothing, or are they their own creators? Have they […]
The Most Dramatic Conflict or Cognitive Dissonance in the Top Scientists, Mathematicians and Philosophers
Epigraph But they have no knowledge thereof. They follow nothing but conjecture; and conjecture avails naught against truth. (Al Quran 53:28) And most of them follow nothing but conjecture. Surely, […]
God and Abstract Objects | William Lane Craig, Peter van Inwagen, J.T. Bridges
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comment I often agree with Peter Van Inwagen. Here, he defends platonism and I cannot agree with him on this issue. And how can mathematical equations or formulae exist, except in a mind and here we will imply eternal mind of God the Creator. In […]
For Theism of Abrahamic Faiths from the Most Important Metaphysical Question
Epigraph: بَدِيعُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۖ وَإِذَا قَضَىٰ أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees something, He says only, ‘Be,’ […]
David Bentley Hart – God and Cosmology
Epigraph: بَدِيعُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۖ وَإِذَا قَضَىٰ أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees something, He says only, ‘Be,’ […]
The Most Important Question of Our Life: Why is There Anything at All?
Epigraph: بَدِيعُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۖ وَإِذَا قَضَىٰ أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees something, He says only, ‘Be,’ […]
Does God Exist Debate: Craig Versus Atkins
Epigraph: بَدِيعُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۖ وَإِذَا قَضَىٰ أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees something, He says only, ‘Be,’ […]
Strong Emergence: God of the Gaps or Mind-Blowing Creativity of the All Knowing and All Powerful?
Epigraph Have they not reflected in their own minds that Allah has created the heavens and the earth and all that is between the two with a sublime purpose and […]