God and New Atheism: 'The Why Question' | Ustadh Dr. Ali Ataie

Dr. Ali Ataie offers a much-needed antidote to the extremist claims of scientific fundamentalism.

This talk was held at the SBIA Masjid Al-Mustafa in San Jose on October 24, 2014. It was delivered via the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California.

Sidi Ali Ataie studied various Islamic sciences with local San Francisco Bay Area scholars. He is a graduate of the Badr Arabic Language Institute in Hadramawt, Yemen, and studied at the prestigious Dar al-Mustafa, also in Hadramawt, under some of the most eminent scholars in the world. He holds a Master’s Degree in Biblical Studies from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley (Oct. 2011), with emphasis upon the New Testament (he is the first Muslim seminarian in the over 150 year history of the school to earn this degree). He is certified in Arabic, Hebrew, and Biblical Greek, and is fluent in Farsi. He also holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Biblical Hermeneutics from the Graduate Theological Union (Oct. 2016) and is a professor of Arabic, Qur'an, and Comparative Theologies at Zaytuna College, the first accredited Muslim College in North America.

Education: M.A., Biblical Studies, Graduate Theological Union; Ph.D. Islamic Biblical Hermeneutics, Graduate Theological Union.

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[billwaterson]

The eye tick. He's human! One of us!

[aidanya]

You can't get it from religion either.
Sure they give a why, but that also eventually leads to because god wanted it this way.
But even if they gave a why. Without a way to show it is also the correct why, it is useless.

Giving a wrong answer isn't any better than giving no answer.