The Book of Deuteronomy is the fifth and final book of the Torah (the Pentateuch), allegedly written by God and delivered to Moses on Mt. Sinai. As such, it is supposed to be sacred and prescribe great truth. The “Song of Moses” (known in Hebrew as the Song of “Ha’azinu” – Hebrew for “listen”) constitutes […]

“We hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel…” — From Israel’s Declaration of Independence, 1948 A ‘state’ is (as we all know) an entity which by itself has no genetic flavor or religious belief. What then is a “Jewish state”? Without any intention of presenting one political opinion or […]

One of the arguments made by religious believers against evolution has to do with our will to survive and exist. Among other things, the argument discusses the fact of the existence of people who committed suicide and of others who indicate their desire to die, supposedly in contradiction to the theory of evolution, according to […]

“The seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspends his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration, and not to the sayings […]

The universe has existed for about 13,500,000,000 years. The Sun and the Earth have existed for about 4,500,000,000 years. Unicellular organisms on Earth have existed for about 4,000,000,000 years. Multicellular organisms on Earth have existed for about 3,000,000,000 years. Complex life on land has existed for about 500,000,000 years. Mammals without dinosaurs (excluding birds) have […]

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 […]