Does God Exist?: A Muslim’s Response to Atheism | Dr. Ali Ataie
Channel: Muslim Community Center - MCC East Bay
Date: 2022-08-07

Dr. Ali Ataie gives spiritual insights about the New Atheism movement (particularly Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, and Dennett) that has led many believers, including Muslims, to begin to question the existence of God.

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Ustadh Dr. Ali Ataie explores three classical arguments for the existence of God from a Muslim perspective as well as an analysis of the claims of the New Atheists.

Dr. Ataie examines the question from three lenses: 

1. Moral Argument: Petitio principii. One must first prove that morality is objective and absolute, for this argument to be valid.
2. Kalam Cosmological Argument: Again, petitio principii. Nowhere outside of theology is the premise "Everything that begins to exist has a cause" found or accepted to be true.
3. Teleological Argument: Argument from analogy

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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.

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Ustadh Ali Ataie is a perennial student and researcher who has been involved in interfaith activities for over two decades. He holds a Masters in biblical studies with a focus on New Testament and biblical languages. He also holds a PhD in cultural and historical studies in religion from the Graduate Theological Union. His doctoral work focused on Muslim hermeneutics of biblical texts, especially the Gospel of John. He lives in San Ramon, CA with his wife Roya and three daughters. Learn more about him at https://zaytuna.edu/academics/faculty/ali-ataie

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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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