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Problem of Evil

8February2012Mazen Walker2 CommentsPhilosophyEvil, Freethought, logical analysis, Philosophy, reasoning

Vibrio Cholerae (Cholera) is a kind of bacteria that was widely present in people’s food & water sources not too long ago. Upon consumption, it would lead to exhaustive diarrhea which causes the infected person to excrete all their fluids until he dies, usually within less than a day. The bubonic plague, on the other

“The Pendant” – A Short Film by Abdul-Rahman Loutfi

1February2012Sami Ab.FreethoughtClip, Film, Freethought, Short Movie, Youtube

We hope that you enjoy this as much as we did. It is indeed a very valuable contribution! The following Lebanese short story is written by Abderrahman Loutfi – The main drive behind Abderrahman’s inspiration comes from Mikhael Naimeh’s vast bibliography “Al-Zakhira”, which tackles the subject of blind faith. In this short film, a man

Argument from Ignorance

30December2011Sami Ab.12 CommentsPhilosophyGod, Ignorance, logic, logical analysis, Philosophy, reasoning, Religion

Taught at philosophy classes in colleges and schools, encountered in all kinds of philosophy forums and discussion groups, the Cosmological Argument is considered one of the strongest theistic tools/attempts of proving the existence of God, which I will try to refute in the article below. While the cosmological argument goes back to Plato’s Laws, 893-6,

CLAFA: An Objective Analysis of a Growing Lebanese Subculture

30December2011Sami Ab.4 CommentsFreethought, OpinionAgnosticism, Atheism, CLAFA, Freethought, Lebanon, Pantheism, Religion

Freethought Lebanon (www.freethoughtlebanon.net) is an initiative launched on December 26th 2011 by CLAFA; (The Coalition of Lebanese Atheists Freethinkers and Agnostics); a project which was born on Dec. 26th, 2007, aiming to unite all Lebanese intellectuals and freethinkers under one and only one motto “freedom of thought”. Their logo, a cedar as nucleus of

MUTAAION

28December2011Karen B.10 CommentsBiology, Sciencedna, molecular biology, mutation, rna

Five years of heavy meticulous biology courses, and it all boils down to one single idea: DNA -> RNA -> Protein This is known as the central dogma of Biology. Really, that’s all there is to it. Every single life-form on Earth follows this universal norm (except for retroviruses- these are the viruses that have