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April 29, 2018 2 mins

Why Islam Is True E07: The Kalam Argument

Muslim theologians formalized general Qur’anic arguments for the fact that the universe began to exist into precise philosophical arguments. Their arguments, historically unknown in the West, have only recently been introduced into contemporary philosophical discourse as the “Kalam Cosmological Argument”. In this episode, Shaykh Hamza explains the Qur’anic context of the argument and then unpacks […]
April 22, 2018 2 mins

Why Islam Is True E06: The Universe Began to Exist

The Qur’an cites the universe as evidence for God’s existence for two reasons. Firstly, because it is contingent as explained in previous episodes. Secondly because it began to exist. In this episode, Shaykh Hamza explains the scientific evidence for the beginning of the universe and concludes with a brief explanation of why that is such […]
April 15, 2018 2 mins

Why Islam Is True E05: God and Science

Atheists frequently claim that the only reason why people have historically believed in God was that they feared natural phenomena, and that by giving scientific explanations for those phenomena, scientists have rendered that belief obsolete. In this episode, Shaykh Hamza explains that this is a straw-man argument that misrepresents the facts (a) that belief in […]
April 8, 2018 2 mins

Why Islam Is True E04: A Materialist Objection

A materialist objection to the argument for God’s existence, is that positing God as the solution to the problem of contingency is arbitrary. One could just as well replace God with the physical universe or the Big Bang. In this episode, Shaykh Hamza shows that this is a hasty and fallacious objection that does not […]