Duh! This has been well known for years. The knee-jerk "Greens" just don't pay attention to the science (I did battle with them on the "Ethanol Fuel" Wikipedia article 2 years ago).

The US Government needs to stop it's $1 per gallon ethanol subsidy NOW. It is:

- Wasting our tax dollars
- Increasing greenhouse emissions
- Un-ethically converting a food crop to an energy crop
- Causing huge price increases for all corn and corn-derived food products.
- And, now, causing the clearing of untold pristine acres of land for use in agriculture.

Quoted: Almost all biofuels used today cause more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions costs of producing these “green” fuels are taken into account, two studies being published Thursday have concluded.

I didn't know Ben Stein was such a scum-bag. He's hosting a film that tricked several evolutionary scientists (including Richard Dawkins) into appearing in the science-bashing creationist film "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed".

Quoted: Biologist is attaching sensors to the one-tusked mammals to study climate change in waters near Greenland.

Quoted: "It's a very intriguing object," says supernova researcher Stefan Immler of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, US, but he will not rule out the possibility that it might be a supernova.

If it was extremely distant, the expansion of the Universe would relativistically stretch a supernova explosion. We would see a 20-day event stretched to 100 days at a red shift of 4, corresponding to an object about 12 billion light years away seen just 1.5 billion years after the big bang.

When I weigh all the evidence about the existance of Jesus, I would say it may be more likely than not, that there was no such person. Imagine that there was a man named Jesus, and than many of the stories in the gospels reflect actual events. These are so extraordinary, I would think it likely that contemporaneous writings of those events would survive to this day. In fact, there are none. The Gospels were written by Greek speaking men, living 60-100 years after the supposed life of Jesus. None were present at the time of Jesus - nor did they even speak the same language.

If, on the other hand, suppose there was a man named Jesus, who lived the ordinary life of a religious teacher. Why would he in particular have garnered attention via oral tradition, resulting the the ultimate invention of the Gospel stories. Also not very likely (and not very relevant from a theological point of view).

I find it far more probable that the necessities and desires of the day, inspired Paul (who I DO think existed) and others to develop a Christian philosophy and mythology.

I found Bart Ehrman's "New Testament - A Historical Introduction to Early Christianity" to be the most lucid scholarship on the historical basis for Jesus.

If by "logical", you mean "following a line of deductions from empirical evidence", I would have to disagree strongly that is more logical to believe in God than not.

Billy Grham makes an illogical leap when he transfers belief in a God to belief in the story of Jesus. There is no evidence that would survive scientific scrutiny that Jesus was even an actual person, much less performed any miracles or was resurected. Honestly, there is little hard evidence for the vast majority of individual persons who lived in that era (except for a few rulers/kings/writers).

To be fair, absolute belief in Atheism is, in a sense, illogical as well - as it is difficult to prove a negative proposition. We can at least say that the evidence for a God is not compelling, and the evidence for Jesus (or the literal belief in any of the Biblical stories) is weaker still.

Black holes colliding - simulation

Quoted: LIGO

Chris - this might be useful for your research paper!