In this episode, I was joined by @Critical Faculty to discuss his path out of Islam. We kicked off the podcast by discussing Critical Faculty’s religious background and how he ended up in Islam. We also talked about how his family molded his views and philosophy when it comes to religion.

Critical Faculty and I then delved into the paradox of free will in Islam. We talked about how free will and the main Islamic God narrative are incompatible yet some Muslim apologists and scholars still find a twisted way to explain it. We also discussed evolution and Scientism.

Later in the episode, we also took questions and comments from the live chat. The questions were from a wide range of topics including Islamic morality, Quran compilation, and preservation as well as Scientific issues in the Quran. 

This was such a lively and interactive episode and I hope you will enjoy listening to the conversation.  

YouTube version of this podcast: https://youtu.be/TObHJK0BPrw

Here are the timestamps for the episode:

0:00 Introductions.

1:12 Critical Faculty’s background

5:15 Is the Islamic community becoming more religious or not? 

9:16 The paradox of free will in Islam.

24:55 Evolution.

28:38 Scientism.

30:52 Reading comments from the live chat

33:55 The moon splitting miracle - Is there evidence for such an occurrence?

41:40 Can miracles in the Quran be authenticated? Problems with Pre-Islamic evidence.

46:35 The anthropomorphic God in Islam.

52:40 Channel announcements

53:40 More comments from the chat

57:40 Can you be a Muslim/theist and still accept evolution?

1:00:52 More comments

1:04:40 Can science explain a miracle?

1:11:06 Did Muhammad and Allah forget to mention Allah in the Quran?

1:12:46 More comments 

1:15:40 How the Quran compilation shows that Islam is a human effort

1:17:40 Is Abdullah normalizing the popular Muslim narrative?

1:22:57 Why did Uthman have issues with the Quran being revealed in various dialects?

1:25:37 Did Muhammad not encourage the preservation of the Quran in written form because he believed he was living in the “End of times”?

1:28:14 Parallels between Muslims and Christianity when it comes to the preservation of scripture.

1:30:00 The aqeedah differences and how they led to rifts in the Muslim community

1:31:47 Was Muhammad an epileptic?

1:33:24 More comments

1:38:00 Critical Faculty's current projects

1:39:09 Is there still any relevance in discussing the Scientific miracles argument?

1:41:56 Closing remarks