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What is Fine-Tuning? Over the past century, scientists have discovered that if certain properties of the universe were changed very slightly from what they are, we would not be here.  They have to be within a very narrow range for our universe to make life possible and be habitable. The universe is fine-tuned for the […]

Introduction Science has accomplished enormous progress and achievements in genetics since the turn of the 21st century. Scientists have sequenced and mapped the entire genomes of more than 2800 organisms/species including human, and the count is on.[1] Macroevolution of evolution theory tells us that humans, as well as other multicellular forms of life, have evolved from

But we must not forget that there is another side to this.  The nature around us has contributed to the purity and beauty of the world, yet what have our own actions made of it? We may have refined petroleum and made machines out of iron, but we have also filled the land and sea

This world has one God.  He is its Creator and Master.  The greatest proof of God’s existence is the existence of the world itself.  Spread around us in all its vastness and complexity it bears witness to the existence of a great God who, in His infinite power, controls it.  If we have no choice

Revelation A simpler way of providing evidence for God’s oneness is by referring to revelation.  The argument here is that if God has announced himself to humanity and this revelation can be proven to be from Him, then what He mentions about himself is obviously true.  The daring assumptions, from an agnostic perspective at least,

Logic necessitates that if there were more than one God who created the universe it would be in chaos and there would not be the level of order we find in the cosmos.  However you may point out that your car was made by more than one creator, one person fitted the wheels, and someone

One of the many common questions that were asked during the Islamic Awareness Tour was “If God does exist what reasons do we have to believe He is one?” This question is important as it addresses a fundamental concept in Islamic theology, the concept of God’s oneness.  The oneness of God, in Arabic Tawhid, is a

Moral values, such as honesty, trustworthiness, justice and chastity, are originally innate values which God planted in the hearts of mankind; then He sent His messengers with a system of life in accordance to this innate disposition to affirm it. “So set your face toward the religion, as one by nature upright; the instinctive (religion)

Order in the Universe When we reflect upon the nature of our world, we see order everywhere from the water cycle to the movement of the earth around the sun.  Commenting on the order found in the universe, the physicist Stephen Hawking explains that the overwhelming impression ‘‘is one of order, the more we discover

Why Islam?  The question “why?” demands a rational answer.  However, many people think that it is not possible to give rational answers to ideological commitments (by ideology, we mean a system of thought).  They believe that a commitment to any theistic ideology is an irrational act.  One cannot deny the fact that many people do