{"id":21492,"date":"2026-08-05T04:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onepathnetwork.com\/?p=21492"},"modified":"2026-08-05T05:47:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T05:47:49","slug":"he-spent-10-years-collecting-every-argument-for-gods-existence-dr-rehan-zaidi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onepathnetwork.com\/au\/society\/he-spent-10-years-collecting-every-argument-for-gods-existence-dr-rehan-zaidi\/","title":{"rendered":"He Spent 10 Years Collecting Every Argument for God&#8217;s Existence | Dr Rehan Zaidi"},"content":{"rendered":"<amp-jwplayer layout=\"responsive\" height=\"500\" data-player-id=\"bKajWAhe\" width=\"600\" data-media-id=\"uXqv239f\" class=\"wp-block-amp-amp-jwplayer\"><\/amp-jwplayer>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@OnePathNetwork\"><\/a>In this episode of the OnePath Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Rehan Zaidi, a Canadian Muslim physician and author of &#8220;The Divine for Critical Minds: A Rational Investigation into God&#8217;s Existence,&#8221; whose 20-year investigation into science, Western philosophy, and Islamic theology produced one of the most rigorous cases for God&#8217;s existence written for a Western Muslim audience. 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