Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Snopes - a website everyone should use

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Ever wonder if that "missing kid" email you received is true? Or if that shocking picture a friend forwarded is real or a photosh...
Monday, October 30, 2006

Istanbul

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Got back from Istanbul - what a great city! Temperature was comfortable, the sights were amazing (especially the Topapki Palace and the Hag...
Sunday, October 22, 2006

On Vacation

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I'm off tomorrow morning for 4 days in Istanbul. I'll post about it once I return. That is, if I'm not bloated from eating too...

Iftar

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During Ramadan a Muslim is not allowed to eat or drink anything throught the day so the meal to break the fast, called Iftar, is pretty impo...

What's up with blogger.com?

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Geez, I'm finally able to access the blog again. For some strange reason I couldn't log on for the last few days. It might have so...
Sunday, October 15, 2006

Scientific Apologetics - part 1A

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I took a quick look through the 27-page response to Qur'anic Embryology and most of the cited work is internet and usenet postings, as ...

Animal Shelters

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First some sad news, the other day a coworker's cat got run over by a car. It was originally a scrawny stray that she started feeding a...
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Monday, October 09, 2006

Critical Thinking News

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Looks like Saudi Arabia is trying to crack down on astrology with an Imam declaring it "forbidden and is considered a form of magic...
Friday, October 06, 2006

Scientific Apologetics - part 1

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Firstly, I found a online version of the book that I was handed A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Understanding of Islam . You can find it a...
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Scientific Apologetics

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The other day I was handed an interesting booklet titled A Brief Illustrated Guide to Islam, which I found somewhat amusing because only a p...
Saturday, September 30, 2006

Horoscopes for cows

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Yep, there's a news article from India about a university designing horoscopes for cows. When I saw the title of the article in a loca...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Creationism part deux

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Okay, creationism in Islam. Actually I had a tough time finding a lot of material, presumably most Islamic-creationist literature and websi...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Creationism

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Time for a bit of a rant on creationism. I’m not talking about the belief that a divine being created the universe and all life on it, anyo...
Friday, September 22, 2006

Happy Ramadan!

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Well Ramadan just started, one lunar month where the Muslims fast during the day, pray more often and have banquets/feasts at night. Becaus...
Friday, September 15, 2006

Science behind the veil

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I just happened to catch this interesting article in the local paper. I think it paints an interesting contrast in what many in the West t...
Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Away on business

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I leave tomorrow for a business trip to Bahrain. I'll be back in a couple of days with updates.
Monday, September 11, 2006

Bermuda gets through relatively unscathed

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Looks like Hurricane Florence was a Category 1 storm and so Bermuda didn't suffer a lot of damage (unlike Fabian in 2003, which was Cate...
Saturday, September 09, 2006

Critical Thinking News

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Apparantly a geologist in India said he developed a model that would predict earthquakes and that it predicted the 2004 Indonesian quake. So...

Hurricane Florence

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It looks like Hurricane Florence is going to hit Bermuda tomorrow! I used to live in Bermuda and was there when Hurricane Fabian hit in 2003...
Friday, September 08, 2006

Critical thinking news

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There are a few English language dailies in Doha, the one I usually read is Gulf Times. The paper sometimes has articles regarding some par...
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