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The Evidence, Examined

Every serious objection. Every core argument. Written for the honest inquirer.

All Hard Questions30 Doubts & Questions23 Objections20 Existence of God7 Science & Faith6 The Quran4 Ethics & Morality4 The Next Question3 Evil & Suffering2 Purpose & Meaning2 Consciousness2 Science & Islam1
Evil & Suffering
Earthquakes, Cancer, and a Good God
Moral evil can be partly explained by free will. Natural evil — disease, disaster, the suffering written into…
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Science & Faith
What Science Cannot Tell You
Science is one of the greatest achievements of human civilisation. It is also frequently claimed to do more…
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Science & Faith
Does the Multiverse Explain Away Fine-Tuning?
The multiverse is the most popular scientific response to the fine-tuning argument. If enough universes exist with varying…
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Science & Faith
The Universe Had a Beginning
For most of Western scientific history, the dominant assumption was an eternal universe — one that had always…
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The Quran
The Quran as Literary Argument
The Quran's literary challenge — produce something comparable — is not primarily a rhetorical device. It is an…
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The Quran
How the Quran Was Preserved
The Quran has an unusual preservation history — one that can be examined by historical methods rather than…
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Science & Islam
Islam and the Scientific Tradition
The narrative that Islam and science are in conflict is historically illiterate. For several centuries, Islamic civilisation was…
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Purpose & Meaning
What Is the Purpose of Life?
The question of purpose is either the most important question a conscious being can face, or it is…
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Objections
Hasn’t Religion Caused Enough Harm?
The track record of religious institutions is a legitimate moral concern. But the argument from harm confuses two…
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Objections
Is God Just an Explanation for What We Don’t Know Yet?
The God of the gaps objection says that every time science explains something previously attributed to God, God's…
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Objections
Why Islam and Not Another Religion?
Granting that God exists, why should one accept the Islamic account over Christianity, Judaism, or any other theistic…
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Purpose & Meaning
What Is The Purpose of Life?
The question most people avoid until they cannot. Is there an answer — or is the silence the…
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