How the B-Theory of Time Demands an External Explanation for the Universe 1. Introduction What is the B-theory of Time? “Nothing was around before the big, Big Bang,” Stephen Hawking famously said in an interview with Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. According to Hawking, if we keep going backwards in time, time does not hit a... Continue Reading →
Shaykh Taqi’s argument for the existence of a creator
Shaykh Taqiuddin an-Nabhani’s (may Allah have mercy on him) argument for the existence of a creator is best summarised in the brief paragraph below from his concise, yet profound, book Nidham ul-Islam: “The reason that things must have a creator, is because the things which are comprehensible by the mind that is man, life, and... Continue Reading →
The Ghazalian response to deniers of causality
Atheists, especially those infatuated with science, these days increasingly seem to be arguing against causality. Their proof? Quantum physics. It is claimed that, at a subatomic level, "virtual particles" come into being out of nothing. The conclusion they draw from this is that not necessarily everything that is originated has a cause. Certain things can... Continue Reading →