The Muslim Thinker Who Challenged Biologists To Believe | Hamza Karamali

Neanderthals, evolution, and now artificial intelligence. On this OnePath Podcast, Hamza Karamali argues the problem was never the science. It is that we stopped teaching our children how to think. We cover the Sapiens claim that religion was invented as a useful fiction, the argument from contingency, and then evolution at length. Does it remove the need for a Creator? Where do Neanderthals and the fossil record sit alongside the Quranic account of Adam? And what happens to our children's faith when they reach a university where evolution is settled fact, and take their hardest questions to a machine instead of a teacher? Hamza Karamali is the founder of Basira Education and the author of Why Islam Is True, a book and website setting out Quranic arguments for the existence of God, the messengerhood of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and the purpose of life. Originally from Canada and now based in Turkey, his work draws on the classical science of rational arguments preserved in the tafsir tradition. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 1:40 Introducing Shaykh Hamza Karamali 2:34 Why He Wrote "Why Islam Is True" 3:54 Why Is There So Much Doubt in the World Today? 5:40 Blind Imitation Is Blameworthy in Matters of Belief 6:34 How Our Institutions of Learning Were Dismantled 8:32 Sapiens: Was Religion Invented as a Useful Fiction? 9:37 Emperor Cults, Ephesus and State-Engineered Myths 11:03 Why the Prophets Left No Monuments Behind 12:29 The Other Evidence That Sapiens Ignores 14:45 The God of the Gaps Objection 15:59 Necessary Existence: What the Name Allah Means 17:48 The Analogy of the Long Line of Leaning People 18:50 Why There Is No Conflict Between Religion and Science 20:17 Does Evolution Remove the Need for a Creator? 23:33 Why the "What About the First Cell" Argument Is a Trap 24:52 Adam, Eve and the Possibility of Miracles 28:58 Why Debating Evolution Is a Strategic Disadvantage 30:18 Protecting the Faith of Muslim Students in Science 33:05 Neanderthals, H