Reconciling Faith and Evolutionary Science: Understanding Ensoulment
(Originally published June 24, 2014)
The “Be Yourself” trope is found in numerous works of film and literature. The protagonist learns a hard lesson when...
The Sparsity of 99%: Evaluating Human-Chimp Genetic Similarity
This article was originally published in April 2014 on islamandevolution.com.
Evolutionists offer a number of scientific evidences in support of common descent. One of the...
Navigating Faith, Science, and Evolution in Islam
https://youtu.be/oVEcRCcKxEE
This is a lecture and Q&A given by Daniel Haqiqatjou at MIT on October 12, 2017.
Topics discussed:
- Can Islam and science ever conflict?
- Do...
How to Get Children to Internalize Islam
My 4 year old asked me where rains comes from, so I think, hmm, how am I going to explain the science behind the...
The Anthropomorphism of Evolution
"DNA stores information at a density per unit volume exceeding any other known medium, from hard disks to quantum holography. Its so dense that...
How Did the West Advance Past the East?
The standard academic argument: Europe was an open market of ideas and coupled with intra-European competitive drive and old fashioned ingenuity, this led to...
It Is Impossible For Someone to Live 950 Years!
Whenever people tell me that the idea that Nuh, for example, or the youth of the cave, or Khidr, or Dajjal have lifespans spanning...
Do Quran and Hadith Describe the Earth as Flat?
What do we make of all the verses and ahadith that seem to imply that the earth is flat or that the earth does...
Evolution: How Much of the Narrative of Adam is Metaphorical?
Is the narrative of Adam (s) in the Quran metaphorical?
This is something that some modernist Muslims claim in their attempt to reconcile evolutionary theory...
Stop Saying Darwinism is Intuitive
What makes Darwinism, i.e., natural selection, so compelling to so many is that it seems very intuitive. Well, here is an intuitive argument against...