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2010; Year Of Protecting The Earth

December 31st, 2009Shahrazad (Iran)

2009 was a chaotic year. The Gaza war just ended on January 18, 2009 , leaving many people around the world in grief and concerned about the result: Around 1500 Palestinians murdered-many of them women and children- , more than 400′000 Gazans were left without running water, 4000 homes were distroyed or badly damaged and [...]

Another Criticism on Joseph and Zulaikha Story: A Scientific Approach

December 14th, 2009Lord Kavi (Iran)

I wrote an article one year ago and claimed that the psychology used in the story of Joseph and Zulaikha is not true! I claimed that women in fest couldn’t fall in love with Joseph at the first glance and cut their hands. This claimes was based on many psychological books that I had had [...]

The evil curiosity of pharma/drug industries

November 25th, 2009Beisan (Bahrain)

Consider the pharma and drug industries lovely work! from the 1950’s until the 1990’s, and these are just my favorite ones, just hand-picked from thousands of pages of facts from Articles of Health: Death by Vaccines.
Please read:
1) 1955- The Salk Polio Vaccine used in the U.S. for cases of polio sky rocket! It was [...]

USA To Supply Nuclear Energy Technology To UAE

June 3rd, 2009Techabia

From Techabia:

President Barrack Obama has announced his support to an agreement between the USA and the UAE whereby nuclear energy technology would be shared amongst the two nations. H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan has also released a statement.
Both letters can be read Here.
What reprecussions do you think this will have to the GCC [...]

Interview with the Iranian genius of biomedicine

December 24th, 2008Kourosh Ziabari (Iran)

Interview by Kourosh Ziabari
Dr. Saba Valadkhan is a world-renowned biomedical scientist and the Assistant Professor of Case Western Reserve University of USA.
After graduating from the Tehran University of Medial Sciences, Saba Valadkhan moved to New York where she could continue her further studies at the Columbia University upon the fellowship which she had been granted [...]

Anousheh Ansari; proud of being an Iranian Muslim

December 9th, 2008Kourosh Ziabari (Iran)

Interview by Kourosh Ziabari
The second anniversary of Anousheh Ansari’s adventurous travel to the spatial station as the first Iranian space explorer passed over with the reticence of global media who have been busy analyzing the very earliest “side effects” of President-elect Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 US Presidential Elections.
In the heat of [...]

ISRAEL@60: A Light Unto The Nations?

May 5th, 2008Nissim Dahan (Israel/USA)

Sixty years have passed since the founding of the State of Israel, and it is fitting, therefore, to look back and to assess. Since her founding, the expectation was that the Jewish State would become “A Light Unto the Nations,” in keeping with biblical prophesies to that effect. Has this hope been realized, or has [...]

Expelling the Intelligent from the ‘Expelled’

March 25th, 2008Lord Kavi (Iran)

There was a new story about Intelligent Design vs. Darwinism lately and it has also sounded the blogosphere; story of expelling an intelligent biologist, PZ Myers, from Expelled movie!
“Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” is the title of new documentary film claims that educators and scientists are being persecuted for their belief that there is evidence of [...]

Antony Flew, Richard Dawkins and Gerald Schroeder on Atheism and Theism

January 30th, 2008Lord Kavi (Iran)

As the series of my commentary debate with “The Recliner Commentaries” grew up, I brought it on here. It discusses Antony Flew, Richards Dawkins and Gerald Schroeder’s Atheism and Theism views:
Note: I’m not here advocating Atheism or Theism or someone’s opinions, but try to find some truth beyond Science and Religion conflicts! I advocate the [...]

Experimental Sciences and the Existence of God

November 21st, 2007Mohammad Memarian (Iran)

Note: some philosophical debates included here.
‘Who is God’ was a post in MEY, of that author, Nissim, who is trying to make a practical use of Common Sense in order to make the world a bit better. As usual, this big phenomenon called God, stimulated many people to comment on the subject, both Atheists and [...]