Why Would We Trust Science Over Islam?
So much deviance in the Muslim community in modern times has been due to the influence of science and scientific epistemology.
For example, reformists outright...
The Disease Afflicting the Minds of Hadith Rejecters
In medicine, you first and foremost have to treat the source of the problem. Treating symptoms is important as well, but if you don't...
Physics and the Circularity of Atheist Argumentation
The circularity of materialism is well expressed in this quote: "Physics explains everything, which we know because anything physics cannot explain does not exist, which...
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...
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...
Common Distortions in the Science vs. Religion Debate
So much of science education, especially when it comes to the place of science in context of religion, is based on caricature and misrepresentation....
Objectivity and Religion
Objectivity and Religion
One of the most pervasive confusions about religious belief is that it is purely a matter of subjectivity, as opposed to objective...