A few years ago, there was a question in the Hebrew part of “Quora” about the origins and the founders of Judaism. This was the translation of my answer: The historical information at our disposal – based on a wealth of evidence, including ancient texts, archaeological findings, linguistic analyses, and more – provides a good […]

One of the common arguments in religious debates is what I call the “retroactive creation” argument. This argument attempts to reconcile the numerous contradictions between scientific conclusions regarding the vast history of the universe and Earth, and religious claims regarding their recent origin. In a nutshell: Science recognizes countless pieces of evidence supporting a history […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]