1. Atheism is a religion and you're as bad as the fundamentalists

Comment #82015 by jacen110091 on October 25, 2007 at 2:33 pm

I found this to be a very interesting topic & I tried to answer it here but found that I was getting too vague & imprecise with my thoughts, so I decided to try my hand at writing a somewhat more organized blog-entry "Examining the Idea of the Fundamentalist Atheist" -

http://therosefoundation.blog.com/2224962/

2. American kids, dumber than dirt: Warning: The next generation might just be the biggest pile of idiots in U.S. history

Comment #81815 by jacen110091 on October 25, 2007 at 8:28 am

@ Comment #81632 by scottishgeologist

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6589301.stm

That link is as amusing as it is horrifying! Having studied my high-school in India, I was barely an average student in Math but I was an easy "A" level genius in my UG program from an American "Accridated" University . .

I honestly figured it was just a special case that my one University was exceptionally dumb, not the general state of things!

I had the same experience with Creationism that Zakie Chan's Canadian mates seemed to have. I really didn't know it as anything more than a mildly amusing American thing that would blow over sooner than it took God to "create" everything!

From an outsiders' prespective, this is all so surprising & tragic & simultaniously frightening when one considers the role the US givernment will inevitably play in World Politics for years to come...