Science And Religion In A World Of Religious Pluralism This article covers Science and Religion in a World of Religious Pluralism. We live in a time of deep division: Will the coming years reveal an increasing number of partnerships between science and religion, or will we see a battle to...
Religion And Science As One In this article, The writer sees religion and science as one. “On some evenings we would attend faculty parties,” she said. “It was a heady atmosphere, as we spent time with the world’s intellectual elite. There were scientists of all stripes, mathematicians and physicists, some...
Religion And Science I The difficulty in approaching the question of the relation between Religion and Science is that its elucidation requires that we have in our minds some clear idea of what we mean by either of the terms, ‘religion‘ and ‘science.’ Also I wish to speak in the...
Are Religion And Science Compatible? This article covers the answer to the question: “Are Religion and Science Compatible?“ The heated debate about whether religion and science are complimentary or not has been raging for years. Several theologians, philosophers, and scientists have put forward different views on this subject. In this...
Perfection And Primitiveness This article covers the relationship between perfection and primitiveness. One of the assertions of the Darwinian theory of evolution is that there is a perfection or structural and functional development in the animal kingdom from invertebrates to vertebrates, from fish to mammals, from mice to monkeys. According...
Biological Change This article covers the relationship between the theory of evolution and biological change. One argument advanced by those who accept (or, rather, who believe) the theory of evolution against those who believe in creation is this: ‘We put forward certain concepts related to evolution, right or wrong, for...
Change Or Choice: Is the Universe An Accident? This article covers the answer to the question: “Change or Choice: is the Universe an Accident?“ Our understanding of the genesis and evolution of the universe is one of the great achievements of 20th century science. The knowledge upon which it is...
Human Fall Human Fall or The Fall of Man, also called simply The Fall, is a theological doctrine describing the change of humankind’s state from sinlessness to depravity. In Christian tradition, the Fall took place when Adam and Eve partook of the forbidden fruit and were expelled from the Garden of Eden, as recorded...
Prophet Ishmael Ishmael was the first son of Abraham, the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, and the Egyptian Hagar, (Genesis 16:3) and is venerated by Muslims as a prophet. According to the Genesis account, he died at the age of 137 (Genesis 25:17). Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions consider Ishmael to be the ancestor of the...
Composition Of the Torah The composition of the Torah (or Pentateuch, the first five books of the bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) was a process that involved multiple authors over an extended period of time. While Jewish tradition holds that all five books were originally written by Moses sometime...
Prophet Joseph Joseph (יוֹסֵף meaning “Increase”, Yosef, يوسف, Yūsuf) is an important figure in the Bible’s Book of Genesis. Sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, he rose to become vizier, the second most powerful man in Egypt next to Pharaoh, where his presence and office caused Israel to leave Canaan and settle in Egypt. Pharaoh gave him the...
Fall Of Man The fall of man, the fall of Adam, or simply the Fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience. The doctrine of the Fall comes from a biblical interpretation of Genesis, chapters 1-3. At first, Adam and...
The Torah The Torah is Judaism’s most important text. It is composed of the Five Books of Moses and also contains the 613 commandments (mitzvot) and the Ten Commandments. The word “Torah” means “to teach.” Five books of story, law, and poetry Main article: Oral Torah For Jews, the concept...
The Torah The Torah (תּוֹרָה, “Instruction”, “Teaching” or “Law”) has a range of meanings. It can most specifically mean the first five books (Pentateuch) of the 24 books of the Tanakh, and it is usually printed with the rabbinic commentaries (perushim). It can mean the continued narrative from the Book of Genesis to...
The Story Of Joseph In The Holy Qur’an This article covers the story of Joseph in the Holy Qur’an. It has been adapted from the Surah 12. Yusuf (Joseph). We do relate unto you the most beautiful of stories, in that We reveal to you this (portion of) The Holy...
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The Story Of Joseph: Islamic View This article covers the story of Joseph from an Islamic view. This is the most detailed and fascinating story in the Holy Book, involving both human weaknesses such as jealousy, hatred, pride, passion, deception, intrigue, cruelty, and terror as well as noble qualities such...
Gap Creationism Gap creationism (also known as ruin-restoration creationism, restoration creationism, or “the Gap Theory“) is a form of old Earth creationism that posits that the six-yom creation period, as described in the Book of Genesis, involved six literal 24-hour days (light being “day” and dark “night” as God specified), but that there was a...
Day-age Creationism Day-age creationism, a type of old Earth creationism, is an interpretation of the creation accounts in Genesis. It holds that the six days referred to in the Genesis account of creation are not ordinary 24-hour days, but are much longer periods (from thousands to billions of years). The Genesis account is then reconciled with...