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I wish I could offer a better answer. Either the politicians who say they have religious beliefs really do believe there is a supernatural superbeing who defines morality through its commands and occasionally intervenes in the natural and human world, or they don't really believe these things...

Thanks for the link -- and the lesson. Although I am ancient beyond the comprehension of most on the forum here, I'm actually familiar with the issue you describe. In an earlier epoch, I was intimately involved with some of the more far-ranging thinking about the legal and social consequences...

I'm not sure I'm understanding you, but I think you're asking what meaning a question about Obama's religious beliefs can have to someone who has no religious beliefs. If that's your question, then the answer is that, in America, politicians have to say that they are religious, and that...

I would never make that argument. It's too stupid even for me, and I'm pretty stupid. I don't deny that anthropogenic CO2 has an impact on climate. I just don't know if there's enough evidence to be very sure about how much impact it has. Ultimately, since I support getting off the fossil...

If you're asking me, you'll get a harsh answer, since I'm one of those obnoxious militant atheists. To me, faith is simply the process that leads to the acceptance of a proposition that is not supported by evidence. But religious people act as if they know what "faith" means, and they say it...

Yes. It's all I have left.

So -- going back to the matter at hand, Obama's religious sentiments -- did these documentaries discuss the material in his biography that might reveal what his religious orientation is?

I have no doubt that there has been a planetary warming trend ... no doubt at all. I think there are serious questions about the causes of the warming and the extent to which its continuation can be predicted with reasonable accuracy. Note there have been fairly extreme weather changes on...

Don't worry. So long as you don't do it too often, you'll be alright. In the meantime, if by "hydrogen" in your last post you mean using hydrogen as a fuel for internal combustion and/or fuel cell power, I'm afraid that's just not going to happen. The basic physics is not very good (it takes...

I agree that the whole notion of race in politics and culture is absurd. Powell's ancestors came from Jamaica, and some of them, before that, from Africa. In the contemporary U.S. political and cultural lexicon, that makes him "African-American." Of course, everyone who lives in the U.S. is...

Is that a serious question?

I'm not sure I understand you, but I THINK you're asking how I can be such a strong advocate of developing non-fossil-fuel energy sources, but also be opposed to what I see as unsupported climate-change alarmism. If that is your question, then the answer is that I put limits on the extent to...

He was the first African-American Secretary of State, appointed by the hick, redneck, racist Republicans. Who then turned around and appointed his successor, the second African-American Secretary of State. ... that tricky Karl Rove ...

You clearly know a lot about Obama's religious sentiments. What is the source of that knowledge?

Rove must really be a genius to have engineered the media's dirt-digging campaign on Joe-the-Plumber in order to make them look like the shallow partisan hacks it has revealed them to be.

That's just crazy-talk. Who would do such a thing? Who could possibly have a motivation to do such a thing?

Sorry, you appear to have misunderstood my point -- doubtless due to my poor communication skills. The double standard applies to the media giving more attention to Palin's background and qualifications than Obama's. Biden? He's as qualified as any other go-along member of his party who's...

It really is astonishing, isn't it? Flat out amazing. And so seemingly unconscious of the double standards ... truly amazing. I can't tell you how many times I've almost closed the window on this forum and walked away. But then I'll get a PM from someone who tells me that they get some small...

It is EXTREMELY important in the case of a candidate like Sarah Palin to look VERY closely at her background -- everything she ever said or did. This is CRUCIAL. Who did she associate with? What kind of ideas does she have? You HAVE to ignore what she says NOW, because she's probably lying...