Are We Hard-Wired to Believe in God? Jamie Turner on Fitra

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Modernity brings with it the promise that ultimate truth can come through reason – a reason that often excludes believers as outside the realm of thinking. Liberalism places religion in a ‘non-reasoned’ bucket, which should be tolerated like all other irrational but ultimately comforting lifestyle choices. This is primarily why there is general animus against anyone who displays an over-exuberance towards belief systems. Such people are described as fundamentalists, unthinking and unable to make their own rational choices.

Our guest this week, Jamie Turner is no stranger to these arguments. He is currently pursuing his doctoral research at the University of Birmingham, looking at Ibn Taymiyyah and natural theology.

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The Thinking Muslim Podcast Episode 109

00:00 Introduction

02:11 The idea of fitra

04:47 Fitra from a cognitive pov

05:19 Theistic disposition as natural

12:25 Nature of theistic faculty

13:30 The Mu'tazilite view

14:43 The Hadith about fitra

18:00 Role of environment

20:36 Our role as agents

22:05 The limits of fitra

24:00 Role of revelation

25:41 Convert vs. revert

28:42 Moral intuition

30:35 Journey to Islam

33:38 The role of reason

38:48 Obligation to use reason

45:33 Too much thinking?

47:52 Learning to reason well

49:27 Studying philosophy

51:50 Fitra and moral judgements

53:42 Dawah

55:37 Evidence for God

57:28 Signs in nature and humans

1:00:57 Responding to Stephen Fry

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