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Yoram Kaniuk, born 2 May 1930, an important author of mainly Hebrew fiction, and winner of numerous literary awards, both national and international, has won an important victory in Israel.

Judgment Day has come and gone. The predictions turned out to be just as reliable as any other predictions that were based on the Bible: not. Was this an exercise in futility or can we learn something from this event?

An ad I saw in the subway last Saturday grabbed my attention. It says that the Bible guarantees that the much-feared Judgment Day will be upon us on May 21. As a lover of science and evidence, I couldn’t help but take a look at the claim.

Manipulation of news facts and of pictures used to be a hallmark of Soviet communism. However, a Jewish newspaper has gone so far as to erase Hillary Clinton from a widespread picture.

Saturday, 7 May 2011, the city of Manila in the Philippines has attempted to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records by circumcising as many boys as possible.

It’s no secret that Christopher Hitchens is an acquired taste for me. Having seen him for the first time in the “Four Horsemen” discussion (part 1, part 2) with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Dan Dennett and Christopher Hitchens, I thought he was arrogant, pretentious and smugly condescending. I also have an aversion for drinkers and [...]

This chapter, starting at 18:55 minutes, is a delicate one. Cosmology is evolving quite rapidly and new insights come up often. It would not be fair to the makers of this documentary to accuse them of not knowing or not presenting information that did not in fact exist at the time they made it. [...]

In this chapter of the documentary, starting at 08:24 minutes, Strobel starts to really make his case for a creator. As the title suggests, this part presents the negative evidence, i.e. the evidence that shows that science is wrong. There is nothing wrong with this approach. There is a lot of “wrongness” in science, [...]

A friend sent me an e-mail, suggesting that I watch a certain documentary. I do not know who the original author is, and while I am always curious, I do not think this is relevant.
Le nom du documentaire dont je te parle est The Case for a Creator. Je l’ai acheté au Christian Family [...]

Some religious leaders are protesting against Gunther von Hagen’s Body Worlds and Plastinarium, calling them immoral and disrespectful. Yet, they don’t seem to have any problems being treated by doctors who acquired their knowledge in similar ways.