A detailed compilation by The following was taken from a group e-mail message by Wilfred Elders. Reproduced by permission. Additional information on the failure of the creationist Genesis flood theory to explain theformation of the Grand Canyon is available in this web site Flood geology bears all the signs of an idea that has not been properly […]
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Problems With “Flood” Geology – Wilfred Elders
Religions Origin Of The Sabbath The Sabbath did not originate with the Israelites. The Sabbath originated with the pre-Babylonians. Its practices were adopted by many religions, not just the Hebrews. As these adoptions occurred throughout the ages, the practices of the Sabbath were changed to suit the religious beliefs at their times.Israel’s “New Moons and […]
The Babylonian Legends of the Creation – British Museum pdf
“The publication of the above-mentioned texts and translations proved beyond all doubt the correctness of Rawlinson’s assertion made in 1865, that “certain portions of the Babylonian and Assyrian Legends of the Creation resembled passages in the early chapters of the Book of Genesis.”
Religious Belief and Violence in the Middle East – Jim Walker
The world press continually ignores or does not see the elephant in the room. In every war and every violent conflict in the Middle East, resides a prime reason as to why these brutal conflicts occur. The media mainly reports about issues of politics, land, honor, and terrorism, and although these constitute surface […]
Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition – David Nirenberg (Books to Read)
Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition Book:Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition David Nirenberg New York, NY, W. W. Norton, 2013, ISBN: 9780393058246; 624pp.; Price: £20.00 Reviewer:Christopher Smith King’s College London Citation:Christopher Smith, review of Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, (review no. 1558) http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1558 Date accessed: 27 July, 2017 David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition is an impressive scholarly accomplishment that matches a dauntingly […]
Sweet Phony Moses – Stephen Van Eck*
Intensive study of the Old Testament, reading critically and analytically rather than reverentially and devotionally, casts serious doubt on the historicity of Moses. Now you can point out the lack of extrabiblical evidence for his existence, but this, of course, is unpersuasive to the pious. You can point out the uncanny similarity between the story […]
CRITIQUE OF THE KUZARI ARGUMENT By Avi Norowitz (link to webpage)
The Kuzari Argument is an argument that is based on arguments presented in The Kuzari. The purpose of the Kuzari Argument is to demonstrate that the miracles reported in the Torah can be rationally proven, and has been used persuasively in books such as Rabbi Dr. Dovid Gottlieb’s Living Up to the Truth [1] and Rabbi Lawrence Keleman’s Permission to Receive [2]. […]
Reconciling Biblical Numbers: Three Million at Sinai is making a Mountain out of a Molehill – Martin C. Winer
Imagine a historian 500 years from now constructs the following proof. “The culture of 1960’s widely accepted homosexual activities. Evidence can be found in the theme song of a popular cartoon of the era, ‘The Flintstones’. This is a cartoon involving the implied homosexual activities between the two male lead characters Barney and Fred with […]
Why the Bible is False – Textuality
The Bible is false because it asserts the occurrence of events that could not have occurred, events that were – and are – impossible. Shakespeare’s Hamlet tells us the title character was visited by the ghost of his father. Do we believe this? Tolkien’s The Hobbit is set in a time between the dawn of fairies and the dominion […]