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“But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man’s mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.  Would anyone trust in the convictions of a monkey’s mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?”[1] This is […]

What if they reject objective morality? As a last resort some atheists try to avoid intellectual embarrassment by replying to the above conclusion by denying that morality is objective.  Fair enough.  I agree.  If someone does not accept the axiom that morals are objective, then the argument does not work.  But that is a double-edged

Euthyphro’s dilemma Many atheists respond to the above argument from morality by citing Plato’s dilemma or Euthyphro’s dilemma. It goes like this: Is something morally good because God commands it, or does God command it because it is morally good? This dilemma poses a problem for theists who believe in an All-Powerful God because it requires

Imagine you have come back from a busy day and you switch on the television.  You skim through some of the channels.  Shocked by a headline, you stop at a popular international news channel.  Sure enough, the headline is truly appalling: Man Beheads Five-Year-Old Boy. Now let me ask you a question.  Was what this man

We all strongly feel and believe that human life has ultimate value.  However, can we intellectually justify this non-negotiable feeling and belief we have? Islamic theism has the intellectual tools to justify the truth of our ultimate value.  Conversely, atheism seems to face tremendous philosophical problems.  In short, under atheism, we cannot rationally justify the

God says: “He is the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden, and He is the Knower of all things.” (Quran 57:3) God precedes all things; He has no beginning.  He abides after all things without ever coming to an end. Prophet Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, said,

Everything in our limited experience must have a beginning and end.  We ourselves are born and we ultimately die.  This is the case with our parents and forefathers as well as with our children and descendants.  Such relationships permeate creation. Some people, due to intellectual weakness or simplicity, assume that everything must be comparable to

In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead? Many have accepted the cultural narrative that he’s obsolete—that as science progresses, there is less need for a “God” to explain the universe.  Yet it turns out that the rumors of God’s death were premature.  More amazing is that the relatively recent case

Our Innate Nature (fitrah) This whole idea of basic beliefs, of self-evident truths concerning God’s existence, is in line with the Islamic theological tradition concerning the fitrah.  The fitrah is an Arabic word that essentially means the natural state, the innate nature, or the innate disposition of the human being.  This innate nature acknowledges God

Objection #2: Wasn’t the belief in a flat earth once self evidently true? Another objection is the belief that the earth was flat.  This was once a self-evident truth, it was a basic belief.  As science has progressed we have found that this is not the case.  We now know that the world is round.