Lewis Black Explains Religion

SCIENCE AND THE CANDIDATES

Almost all of the major challenges we will face as a nation in this new century, from the environment, national security and economic competitiveness to energy strategies, have a scientific or technological basis. Can a president who is not comfortable thinking about science hope to lead instead of follow? Earlier Republican debates underscored this problem. In May, when candidates were asked if they believed in the theory of evolution, three candidates said no. In the next debate Mike Huckabee explained that he was running for president of the U.S., not writing the curriculum for an eighth-grade science book, and therefore the issue was unimportant.

SCIENCE AND THE CANDIDATES
By Lawrence M. Krauss

Religion is bad for your health

From ATHEISTS AGNOSTICS SKEPTICS & HUMANISTS ON MYSPACE


According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005) countries like Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom (among the least religious societies on earth) show the highest levels of life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality as well as the lowest homicide rates and infant mortality. The 50 worst tend to also be the most religious. Meanwhile the U.S., (with its high level of religious adherents distinct from any western democracy) is also burdened with high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, STD infection and infant mortality. (http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005//)(http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/pdf/2005-11.pdf)