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  1. Numbers check??

    Quote Originally Posted by bill hill View Post
    Fascinating actually!

    "Comparison of Arab and Jewish Nobel Prize Winners

    Arab/Islamic Nobel Prize Winners

    From a pool of 1.4 BILLION Muslims which are 20% of the world's population (2 out of every 10 people)
    Literature

    1988 - Najib Mahfooz

    Peace

    1978 - Anwar El-Sadat

    1994 - Yasser Arafat *

    2003 - Shirin Ebadi

    Chemistry

    1999 - Ahmed Zewail
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  2. Are the Palestinians the Jews NOT expelled from Judaea after Bar Kochba Revolt?

    Quote Originally Posted by DennisTate View Post
    Because Orthodox Jewish scholars firmly believe in the restoration of the lost tribes of Israel this new genetic research that indicates that the Palestinians are "Jewish" may play a significant role in genuine peace coming between Israelis and Palestinians!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsvi_Misinai


    "Tsvi Misinai claims that the majority of the Palestinian people—including those with Israeli citizenship or residency, known variously as Arab citizens
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  3. My Dad is gravely ill.....

    Quote Originally Posted by tresha View Post
    *sigh*
    Can't find the "Prayer Request" thread that used to be around, so I'll mention it in here.

    Found out tonight that my Dad is in the hospital possibly/probably close to dying.
    It's a long story I just can't get into---but shortest version possible is as follows:

    None of us kids, (you know *his* kids) know exactly in which order things happened, b/c my stepmother didn't contact any of us.
    It was truly by chance or more likely the grace
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  4. God Bothering: Rational Id'juts?

    Academic analysis into religion has tended towards bile, encouraged by the sociologist’s use of the secularisation thesis. The general attack on religion is summed up nicely by Stark and Bainbridge (1985): ”At least since the Enlightenment, most Western intellectuals have anticipated the death of religion...The most illustrious figures in sociology, anthropology, and psychology have unanimously expressed confidence that their children, or surely their grandchildren, would live to see the ...
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