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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (646372)	2/26/2012 2:01:58 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583396

Atheist Richard Dawkins: God Might Exist THE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST SAYS HE ISN'T TOTALLY SURE By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff newser.com ( Dawkins goes agnostic. The only logically correct position to hold. ) Posted Feb 25, 2012 2:37 PM CST (NEWSER) – World-famous atheist Richard Dawkins admitted in a debate this week that he's at least a little bit agnostic, the Telegraph reports. Sharing an Oxford University stage with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, Dawkins said he was “6.9 out of seven” certain of his atheism. “I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very, very low,” he said. Dawkins also argued in favor of a universe created from nothing, a notion he has discussed on YouTube. "What I can’t understand is why you can’t see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing—that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?” Williams "entirely agreed" with the "beauty" of the idea, but added, “I’m not talking about God as an extra who you shoehorn on to that.” (See the whole discussion here. Or look at last week's kerfuffle over a Dawkins-family slave owner.)

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (646372)	2/27/2012 10:59:26 PM
From: RMF	Respond to of 1583396

I don't hear YOU coming up with any bright ideas other than bombing them immediately. These sanctions are KILLING their economy. I say let them play out for a while. Wars are easy to start, but not so easy to end. Take a look at what Iraq and Afghanistan have cost us and how long we got STUCK in each. And BOTH of those are going to end badly. Right now we've got members of our Afghanistan "allies" killing our troops. With allies like that who needs enemies?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (646372)	2/28/2012 11:41:35 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1583396

Santorum's College 'Snob' Zinger Backfires 'I WISH HE'D SAID IT DIFFERENTLY,' SAYS GOP GOV. BOB MCDONNELL By Polly Davis Doig, Newser Staff newser.com Posted Feb 28, 2012 6:53 AM CST (NEWSER) – Labeling President Obama as an elitist is a tried and true way of resonating with an electorate that doesn't give a fig about the price of arugula at Whole Foods, but lambasting him as a "snob" for his efforts to get Americans a college education is falling flat for Rick Santorum, even among fellow Republicans. "I wish he’d said it differently," says Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. "When you look at other countries, China, India, the premium they put on higher education—we’ve got to do better if we still want to be the global leader we are." Santorum was attempting to underscore his blue-collar cred with Michigan voters, and the effort worked with some—Obama "thinks he knows what's best for everyone," scoffed one pastor—but by and large, Americans see a college education as a cornerstone of the American Dream, notes the Washington Post. GOP governors Jan Brewer, Phil Bryant, Bobby Jindal backed away from Santorum's comment, and Obama himself seemed to take aim yesterday, emphasizing two-year colleges and trade schools as equally important during a meeting with the National Governors Association. By yesterday afternoon, a Santorum adviser was dialing back the comment, saying, “Rick Santorum wants his kids to go to college, but if one of them comes to him with another choice, that’s not a dishonorable decision." (Jon Stewart poked at the statement last night; catch the video in the gallery.)