For a long life, have faith
Religious faith remains by far the best predictor of a long and healthy life. Source: The Telegraph By James LeFanu It is encouraging for those reluctant or unable to engage […]
Every Thing You Wanted to Know about Honey, Bees and Religion
Epigraph: And thy Lord has inspired the bee, saying, ‘Make thou houses in the hills and in the trees and in the trellises which they build. Then eat of every […]
What Happens When You Raise Walking Fish Entirely on Land?
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 Source: Slate.com By Jeffrey Bloomer Native to freshwater African riverbanks, bichirs are famous for their strong fins and lungs, allowing them to “walk” and breathe out of water. But the […]
New Poll Reveals Many Americans Express Doubt Over Global Warming, Evolution, Big Bang
http://pshared.5min.com/Scripts/PlayerSeed.js?sid=281&width=480&height=280&playList=518204741 | By JENNIFER AGIESTA and SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — Few Americans question that smoking causes cancer. But they express bigger doubts as concepts that scientists consider to be truths […]
The car designer who turned a sailfish into a supercar
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 […]
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When Faith and Facts Collide
Source: The Huffington Post By Dave Pruett, Former NASA researcher; Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, James Madison University Conflict between faith and science is as old as science itself. In 1543, Copernicus’s great work, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, laid the groundwork for a new model of the cosmos, with the […]
New dates rewrite Neanderthal story
Source: BBC Modern humans and Neanderthals co-existed in Europe 10 times longer than previously thought, a study suggests. The most comprehensive dating of Neanderthal bones and tools ever carried out […]
Reconciling God and Evolution
Epigraph: And We bestowed on David, Solomon who was an excellent servant. He was always turning to Us. When there were brought before him at eventide steeds of noblest breed […]
eDigest: Albert Einstein’s search for God
Epigraph: “Allah is He Who raised up the heavens without any pillars that you can see. Then He settled Himself on the Throne. And He pressed the sun and the moon into service: each pursues its course until an appointed term. He regulates it all. He clearly explains the Signs, […]
Albert Einstein’s search for God — An Islamic Perspective
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Was Einstein a monotheist, deist, pantheist, or an atheist? How did his religion affect his science Agnostics, […]
Possessed by Jinns: Many Medieval Muslim Scholars Need Exorcism
Epigraph: And most of them follow nothing but conjecture. Surely, conjecture avails nothing against truth. Indeed, Allah is well aware of what they do. (Al Quran 10:36) Written and collected […]
Beyond Energy, Matter, Time and Space
Source: New York Times By George Johnson Though he probably didn’t intend anything so jarring, Nicolaus Copernicus, in a 16th-century treatise, gave rise to the idea that human beings do […]
Children Exposed To Religion Have Difficulty Distinguishing Fact From Fiction, Study Finds
Young children who are exposed to religion have a hard time differentiating between fact and fiction, according to a new study published in the July issue of Cognitive Science. READ MORE…
Science and Religion: Two Books
Huff Post: In my previous blog, I talked about how religious believers often feel as though they are faced with a lose-lose decision — science or religion. The Bible, for example, seems to speak of a fairly quick and recent creation by very specific divine interventions — the creation of […]
Fasting for three days can regenerate entire immune system, study finds
Epigraph: The prescribed fasting is for a fixed number of days, but whoso among you is sick or is on a journey shall fast the same number of other days; […]
The sad business of trying to disprove God
By Charles Moore The Telegraph: You often meet them for the first time at secondary school. The typical teenage atheist is more likely a boy than a girl, stronger on […]
Christianity and Modern Science
Source: The Huffington Post By Victor Stenger: Physicist, PhD, bestselling author Christianity, as practiced by billions of people worldwide, still rests on a foundation that was erected by desert tribesmen who lived […]