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My wife drives a Volt. It's a great bargain for us -- dirt cheap lease and close to zero gasoline costs here in California where regular goes for $4.20/gallon. Too bad the taxpayers got screwed. Many thanks to all of you who are subsidizing my wife's cool car.

The study showed that 7% believe in a personal god, which is different that a belief in god or some higher power. Max Plank didn't believe in a personal god (despite what some people say), but he did believe in a higher power. Where do people like Planck fit in? When you ridicule people who...

Where did you get the 7% number? There are many studies that show 40-50% of scientists believe in god, but none that I can find that show 7%. And there are many other top scientists who believe in god, it's not just Collins. William Phillips won a Nobel Prize in physics and Jerome Groopman...

It was such a visceral response I don't believe he envisioned anything but hedge fund managers and Wall Street fat cats getting on their jets and flying away. When I tried to point out to him that most of the people employed in the financial industry are middle-income clerks, bookkeepers, IT...

You can try, but the data says that's not possible.:D

If you are too lazy to search for answers, I'll do it for you. ============================ What do scientists think about religion? According to a survey of members of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science, conducted by the Pew Research Center in May and June this year, a...

Agnosticism is an admission that I don't have all the answers; nor do I feel the need to hate or fear people with beliefs different than mine. As I said, my best university mathematics professor and the surgeon who saved my daughter's life were both deeply religious. Should I hate them...

Until someone conclusively proves or disproves the existence of god I'll remain an agnostic. I don't feel threatend by people with religious beliefs. My best university mathematics professor was a devout Christian, and the doctor who saved my daughter's life is an orthodox Jew. I see no...

You and Stalin would have been good friends. That's the same thing he used to say.

Why is income inequality rising for U.S. families and households, but not for individual Americans? Having now shown that there has been absolutely no significant change in the level of inequality among U.S. individual income earners from 1994 through 2010, we thought we'd take a step back...

The question of whether or not god exists cannot be answered. I'm surprised that religious people spend so much time and effort declaring with certainty that god exists. I'm equally surprised that atheists spend so much time and effort declaring with absolute certainty that god does not...

Obama is winning for two reasons: 1. Romney is a lousy candidate. 2. Romney's campaign is run by a bunch of amateurs.

The book will never happen. The dems will pay her $20-30 million for her silence and that will be the end of it.

They guy I spoke to was just a mid-level congressional staffer, but he made it clear that his beliefs are shared by many including numerous members of congress.

If you tried to explain it to them they would stick their fingers in their ears. They don't want to hear it.

I agree with you, but... I'm very careful about how I use that argument. In a discussion I had with a congressional staff member I pointed out that the FTT would drive our financial sector (and thousands of jobs) out of the country. He quickly responded: "Good riddance! They can't leave fast...

I don't think advertising is going to effect the outcome much. There's been so much loud, repetitive noise about both candidates that people have made up their minds. Even if someone could prove that Obama was born in Kenya or that Romney never paid a penny in taxes his entire life I don't...

The fall elections are in full swing. If you want to do something to stop financial transaction taxes, here's your opportunity. Contact your local congressional representative and your state's senators. They all have websites and contact information. Send each of them a polite...

One of my oldest daughter's best friends is Jewish and being "bat mitzvah" (I think that's how you spell it) in a few weeks. The last conversation I had with her father he said he didn't believe in God, but he wanted his daughter to have a "cultural connection" with being Jewish. I'm an...

Have you ever read a newpaper published in the Middle East? Their papers are full of insults aimed directly at Jews and Christians. I lived in the ME for six and a half years. In most Muslim countries Jews and Christians are hated or barely tolerated. In many of these countries Jewish...