The Existence of God

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

An atheist is said to be someone who denies the existence of the Creator.  This is a good definition, provided that we mean by it that the creator whose existence they deny is the only God of religion, the one true Creator.  Otherwise, atheists do believe in creators, albeit they do not recognize them under

According to the theory of evolution, every living species has sprung from a predecessor.  A previously-existing species turned into ‘something else’ with time and all species have come into being in this way.  According the theory, this transformation proceeds gradually over millions of years.  If this was the case, then numerous intermediary species should have

Creationism, natural selection, intelligent design, the theory of evolution.  Thinking about the creation of the world, the universe, and humankind can be confusing.  There are theories, opinions,  and beliefs that state that the creation of the universe was a random act, that humankind evolved from apes and that living creatures climbed out of the primordial

To return to Francis Bacon, he once opined, “They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”[1]  Believers would offer advice to Atheists and Agnostics alike that God exists, whether seen or not, whether desired or not, whether considered proven or not.  Argument to the contrary is

So why the contemporary return to heresy-slash-Gnosticism, with the official sanction of so many religious institutions?  Well, it is understandable.  Since no logical defense of modern day Judaism or Christianity withstands the pressure of present day scriptural analysis, this ‘mystical exclusivity’ is a last ditch defense of a rapidly crumbling doctrinal status quo.  Significant attrition