Why Islam is True

Proposition: The statement “Why Islam is True” is not a cultural preference but a fact.

Proposition: The God who is described in the Quran is the necessary being who has volitional agency and is characterized by the attributes of speech, hearing, and sight.

Proposition: The contingency of the universe is evidence for God’s existence.

Proposition: The universe began to exist and was made to exist by someone who did not begin to exist.

Proposition: Natural causation is the regular association of contingent causes and their contingent effects by God.

Proposition: The belief that everything that exists is physical (i.e., describable by matter, energy, space, and time) is called materialism. Materialism is false because God exists and He is not a physical object.

Proposition: The universe is evidence for the existence of a necessary being who is a volitional agent.

Proposition: The design and existence of the universe are conclusive evidence that there is only one God.

Proposition: People sometimes forget God’s necessary existence and ask questions that assume His contingency. The proper way to answer these questions is to deny the underlying assumption of contingency.

Proposition: The existence of suffering is evidence for the existence of God and even though it is unpleasant, it leads to many great benefits.

Proposition: When we look at the purposes that God has placed in everything in the universe, it seems plausible that He would also have made human beings for some purpose.

Proposition: A miracle is an interruption of the relationship between natural causes and their effects. Miracles are possible because God freely chooses to create contingent causes and their effects

Proposition: A miraculous event on its own does not signify anything, but in the context of a claim to messenger-hood it can signify one of six things.

Proposition: The linguistic, predictive, scientific, and historical miracles of the Quran are evidence that the Prophet Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace) was a genuine messenger from God.

Proposition: A process of elimination reveals that the Quran could only have been taught to the Prophet (God bless him and give him peace) by the Angel Jibril.

Proposition: The Prophet Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace) performed a very large number of other prophetic miracles apart from the Quran and all of them are evidence that he was a genuine messenger from God.

Proposition: The life and character of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) are evidence that he was not an impostor.

Proposition: The revelation received by the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) is an evidence-based source of knowledge about God and the universe.

Proposition: We can achieve eternal happiness in the afterlife by believing and going good deeds.

Proposition: Integrating the rational, scientific, and revelatory evidence surrounding biological evolution leads us to the conclusion that human beings are a miraculous exception to the general rule of biological evolution.