Some interesting conclusions of the mainstream research nowadays: During the period that religions attribute to the Exodus – Egypt ruled Israel. The story of Goliath describes ancient Greek armor. The Hebrew ‘Elohim’ and Jehovah/Yahweh were originally two different gods. Some passages from the Psalms are taken from ancient Phoenician texts. The Book of Isaiah was […]

The correspondence below (using pseudonyms) is part of a longer correspondence that took place within Facebook during the summer of 2024. The original topic was the definition of “life”. John: There is also an artificial intelligence that knows how to replicate itself or will know soon – robots that produce robots, software that produces software. […]

THIS was published here a while ago. Due to current news it’s being mentioned again.

This analogy was built to explain why there is [sort of] life after death. The story goes something like this: Two twins grow in the womb of a pregnant woman. They talk to each other using baby language inside their mother’s womb. One day, one of the twins says to his brother: “I heard that […]

In the nucleus of every cell of every living creature is its “genetic code”. Some of us know it by the mythological name “DNA”, which stands for a very long combination saying more or less “something Nucleic Acid”. Without delving into some sort of a biology lesson: DNA is made up of long, winding chains […]

We heard the intriguing truth not long ago, in one of the Islamic demonstrations in favor of the Hamas terrorist organization: “You believe that death is the end, we believe that death is the beginning!” – cried the brainwashed protester. How can you convince someone, given that they believe that death is a beginning – […]

Do you want to live forever? Have you wondered if science may one day enable you to live forever? Well, first we must ask what is “life” anyway. Are bacteria “alive”? Bacteria, in many cases, do not die – they simply divide into two, and now we have two new bacteria. There are also creatures […]

“Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me? Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?” — 1 Samual 21:14-15 “The whole religious […]

Israel, Tel Aviv. A few years ago, I took a taxi. The [male] driver did not wear a “Kippah”. There were no religious papers visible around. Not even the common religious stickers you can find on many cars in Israel. The busy Ayalon Highway 20, however, inevitably established the necessary atmosphere for a driver-passenger conversation. […]

The story is well known – David the boy, in his first famous battle, kills the Philistine giant Goliath: “And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span … And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s […]