Physics of the Unseen
“Ever since the beginnings of modern science, four or five hundred years ago, scientific thoughts seem to have…
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The Preservation of Equilibrium among Divine Truths
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi has carried out long profound research on the Qur’an. In fact, his studies, bearing the…
Science in Search of Its Soul
In the concepts of today, we can define science as the human effort to understand the physical world…
A Dead End for Science or A Call to the Creator
The scientists of the world have been engaged in solving the problem of deciphering the so-called human genome…
The Virgin Birth: The Birth of Jesus without a Biological Father
Human development begins at fertilization when a male gamete or sperm unites with a female gamete or oocyte…
Darwin’s Black Box
Over since the publication of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin in 1859, his theory of…
Fields of Certainty as a Unifying Paradigm for Science and Religion
A superficial understanding of science and religion perceives these two fields as being disciplines of different realms. Such…
Are Religion and Science Compatible?
The heated debate about whether religion and science are complimentary or not has been raging for years. Several…
An Argument on Miracles
We sometimes read in newspapers or hear from the news on television “A child fell from the fifth…
Modern Science’s Debt to Islamic Civilization
Introduction The debt that Briffault speaks of is often referred to as though it should be taken for…
How does the Qur’an regard “knowledge”?
Q:What are the differences between the Islamic and the modern scientific points of view on knowledge (ilm)? How…
Editorial (Issue 42)
Despite our best hopes, it seems that the new millennium will bear many resemblances to the one that…
Editorial (Issue 41)
The end of the year 2002 was a time for personal reflection, for Yom Kippur, Christmas, and Ramadan…
Metaphors in Science
Metaphors are generally considered to be poetic linguistic expressions. However, we often use symbolic language and analogies in…
Editorial (Issue 38)
During this time of uncertainty and tension, we should take a moment to remember religion’s central teaching: Do…