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 […]

What is the fastest speed a human can reach? The answer is a bit “tricky” because the concept of something’s speed has meaning only in relation to something else. Anyway, considering future developments, the highest theoretical speed that a person can reach in relation to any other object is “almost” the speed of light. Simply […]

Many religious people recognize the fact that the human mind is very “limited”. In fact, they even promote this fact, to “sort of” demonstrate how we cannot fully understand “God” and his processes of reasoning. At the same time, their limited minds seem to know very well that there IS such a “God”, and they […]

We used to be few. We, humans, that is. The Biblical story talks about Adam and Eve, but even real science agrees that at certain times the Homo Sapiens population was tiny. And then we became many. Very many. It is a nasty characteristic of evolution that makes the successful ones numerous, and eventually – […]

The debates between religious and secular, between “believers” in some god and “non-believers” – are as old as human imagination. In the ancient world where scientific knowledge was much inferior to nowadays, most of these debates tended to favor the religious side. Yet, even then there were quite a few people who opposed the simple […]

There is a big thing in Israel against Reform Judaism (a.k.a. Progressive Judaism). The opposition comes mainly from Orthodox Jews, but they have managed to indoctrinate many others into considering Reform Jews as some sort of evil. In fact, you can find many statements emphasizing that Reform Jews are “even” worse than “Goyim” – the […]

This topic came up during a correspondence of mine with a creationist. I find it quite interesting, so I bring it here as is. Steve: The big bang is a hypothesis. It cannot be directly tested. God’s creation cannot be tested either. Me: Scientifically speaking, the Big Bang is an established scientific theory. God is […]

Here is a common situation: You are arguing with a creationist about the origin of all the processes in the universe being based on the laws of nature, and then they come up with the strange question: “And who created the laws of nature?” Who told physics to act in certain ways? The real answer […]

The word “logic” is used quite hastily nowadays. We tend to assign it to almost everything we think. We often blame others that they’re logically mistaken if they don’t think like us. Mathematically speaking, “logic” is a very well-defined area. If B is derived from A and A is true, then B is true. This […]

One of the common religious claims about “creation” is that the world was created some 6,000 years ago with all the known scientific evidence already built into it. Sort of “God is trying us”. This claim of retroactive creation makes little sense, and is already discussed here. An interesting method of tackling this issue is […]