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US House Approves Over $300 Million For Science Agencies
sciencehabit notes that the US House of Representatives has allotted an additional $337.5 million in budget increases divided amongst four science agencies. NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy's Office of Science will each receive an additional $62.5 million, and the National Institutes of Health will receive $150 million. The money will help to offset the decision to reduce budget increases earlier this year. Early plans for the money include the training of new math and science teachers, and another reprieve for FermiLab's financial troubles.
Well you can't really attest to anything before you were born. As you were born from humans (allegedly, i have it on good authority you mother was a hamster), everything you believe about what came before you is a matter of what you've been told to believe.
In the creation/evolution debate both require faith. One is in divine intent, the other in a process. Both gave rise to you. So what you believe at best is an educated guess. Until it is directly observed, it is alleged. Even then what you observe is subject to your own prejudices.
Ultimately the creation/evolution debate need not be answered. Our educational system need only focus on teaching skills. Creation and evolution are not skills we can directly control. (But genes are another story...)
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In WW2, if Germans were using a 1000-year-old cathedral tower for observation or sniping, we blew it up. For some reason, we don't shoot at mosques.
In WW2, we carpet bombed cities, and eventually just nuked the Japanese. Now we use "smart bombs" and are affraid of "collateral damage."
on Iowa Jima, in the space of a week, the US Marines suffered over 26,000 casualties including almost 7000 dead. We have lost just over 4000 or so (i haven't been keeping up) in Iraq in 5 years, and people think that's an unacceptably high loss.
The problem in Iraq isn't military, its political, and its not in Iraq, its on the cable news.