Faith, Science and Common Sense

A talk by Yusuf Estes
Venue: Menara TM Kerinchi.

Last nite was the last series of Yusuf Estes lecture in Malaysia and it was his first lecture that I’ve attended. Heheh dah last2 baru nk pg…for me it was interesting and yet inspiring talk from him even though I can only focus for 1 ½ hours only (typical me :P)

Take away:
Faith in Islam is Iman, where it cannot be translated to English or Malay. Its what we believe in our life, which is Allah. Science is logic and proof that we dig just to understand and satisfy or quizzical mind and Common sense is all the things that our mind can accept.

He quoted 1 example from the science fact that is not logic, that require us to use our common sense and to belief in Allah and the content of Al-Quran. Science says that we ‘human’ evolve from an ape, (which I definitely not agree). If we use our common sense, this one questions from a kid would have answer and proof that the fact was wrong. “Daddy, if we are from monkey, why we still have monkey today?” haha so right... If the logic doesn’t work why keep it as a fact?? Is it because some people who refuse to belief in Allah need to belief in something… so sad...