His nonfiction work includes no god but god, beyond fundamentalism in his most recent release. Where does the phrase no god but god comgod butgod come from . Guest its the first halfn, of the muslim profession of god faith called the shahadad and mohammed is gods messenger. It is essentially the phrasefai. That initiates a convert into the muslim faith. A c host you also write in the book though god but god howith islam can be available to all muslims and every muslim canllms speak. Musl guest its a strange phenomenon because it is what i referred to earlier as is gone though it is not a priestly religion, it has it is more like the pinnacle in a sense that there are a whole host of different schools of law and interpretations a have certain individuals who because of a lifetime of learning have achieved a level of knowledge that allow them to speak authoritatively about islamic theology and islamic jurisprudence but as with judaism those individuals dont have authority over one anothe
People over the years had found in canada there was clearly a fossil marsh. A place that used to be a swamp dried out and they found all sorts of happy swamp fossils there, ferns and animals and fish that were recognized. People realized with the age of the rocks as computed by traditional scientists this would be a reasonable place to look for in animal, a fossil of an animal that lived there. They found several specimens. They made a prediction this animal would be found and it was found. So far it cannot make predictions and show results. Here is an externally one that i find remarkable. There are certain fish that have them are remarkable ability to have sex with other fish, traditional fish sex and they can have sex with themselves. One of the old questions in life science, everybody, one of the chin strokers is why does any organism whether you are and ash tree or ec jelly, a squid, apartment, why does anyone have sex . There are more bacteria in your tummy right now than there a
Two things. Submittedt budget was march 4. How long do you think it will did Something Back to congress after that date . Question is, is you can have a lot of under noticed stuff in novemberdecember saying you stabilize the debt. You need 2 trillion longterm. To reduce the to prerecession levels. Trillion over 10 years. It is very similar to what old simpson was saying in bow lessimpson was saying. Walk us through the overview of how much progress was made in the budget. On your first question, it takes about a month to produce estimates of the president s budget. But that time frame varies depending on what the policy proposals are, how from the lawyer or unfamiliar they are to us. And depending on the release of underlying data. So we use a lot of data that comes out with the president s budget separate from his proposals, but data is very important in updating our baseline. We will not make any precise predictions, but in the past it was about a month. I dont i cant speak directly
Host reza aslan, where does the phrase no god but god come from . Guest it is the first half of the muslim profession of faith. There is no god but god and mohammed is gods messenger. It is essentially the phrase that initiates a convert into the muslim faith. Host you also write it not look that now, islam is available to all muslims and every muslim can speak for islam. And so it becomes a great shouting match. Again, i keep paralleling judaism and is on. The problem of course is theres about 15 million after jews. When you look at the conflicts in the middle east commodious muslim democrat and was some autocrats fighting against each other, muslim peacemakers and the Software Makers are doing against each other, what ewers is precisely the result of this reformation process, this individualization of islam, in the process the authority to decide if faith is being removed, seized ashes back from the hand that these institutions that have gripped it from us at the last 14 centuries an
Host reza aslan, where does the phrase no god but god me it initiates the convert cono the muslim faith. Host you also write it not look that now, islam is available to all muslims and every muslim can speak for islam. It is a religion not to have the intermediary but unlike todays them it has resulted in the creation of a class of scholars the learned once says they are known. For most of the last four centuries. Host how does that involve from mohammad to free them to interpret . That all great religions half profits that was a creator of a religion that is important for people to understand we have a perception of profit is someone who invents a new religion but a profit is someone who reforms the religion in the culture in which he lived they did not create christianitys jesus was said you preaching about it today is some. If he was the hidden duty was reforming hindu with some. The across repeatedly reminds people it is not a new religion this aid was given to all the profits but