When monotheistic religions were created, it really had nothing to do with monotheism. Behind every religion, not just monotheistic ones, there are moral values. The "God" comes in to keep people from thinking "Why should I do all this stuff that they're telling me? What's keeping me from running of and being a bad person?" God is how the religions answer, and keep people from doing bad things by saying God will punish them. It's time that we let go of our belief in a God and be good to others because we care, not because we have to.

Moreover, science is more beautiful than anything in the bible. As Ann Druyan said, the Garden of Eden was more like a super-max prison with 24-hour surveillance. The cosmos, however, is pure beauty. Instead of turning to a god for amazement, just look around you. It's all really there, every planet and every star. You have to stop and think about it; about the vast complexity of space. Every living thing is a triumph of evolution. Each of us is a product of 400 million years of natural selection.

Knowing all of this, there is no need for a god. We have the cosmos, and we have our moral values that can exist without bribery. There have been thousands of confident religions and theologies on this planet, and they all contradict each other. There are also many sciences, but they coincide perfectly and are all unified. Science created us, we created our vision of god. Now we must let that vision go, and pay our respects to the truth.

Stopping all efforts to save endangered species is stopping all efforts to save ourselves. We have put ourselves in a position where we can destroy our species, as well as life on Earth. Furthermore, as David Attenborough says, "Our planet, the Earth, is, as far as we know, unique in the universe; it contains life. Its continued survival now rests in our hands."

Our species is like a blind tree trimmer, cutting the complex tree that represents the history of life. All life is related, and connected by the branches of the tree. We are blind because we do not know whether we cut a twig, a branch, or even the entire network. Not only is it our responsibility to maintain life, it is quite obviously in our best interests. As much as we like to think that humans are the best, that the universe revolves around us, we are measly beings on the pale point of light that we call home. We are no better than any other species, and we should consider them just as we consider ourselves. Jane Goodall, one of the most animal experienced people in the world, says this about our anthropocentric views: "There is no sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom; it's a very wuzzie line and it's getting wuzzier all the time. We we animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think were 'just human'". In order to save ourselves, we must save every insect, every bird, and every speck of life that is endangered by human activities.

We are one universe in a sea of other universes, floating in what is like a sea. The black holes that populate our universe lead to white holes in these other universes. When we reach the end of our universe, we go through a wormhole that leads us to the point diametrically opposite our location on the edge.

Our particular universe is growing, because galaxies are spreading. Infinite things can't grow.

If the universe were infinite, the black hole would have to have had perpetual, infinite force. It did not. It had the four basic forces. Therefore, the universe is finite.

Think of the universe as a beach- a very big beach. The Earth is one grain of sand. There is life on that one piece of sand. We have explored one other piece of sand. What are the odds that the beach (aka the universe) contains only one piece of sand that has life?Looking at it this way, logic suggests that not only is there extraterrestrial life, but it is abundant, waiting to be found.

By people, the second amendment implies the people of the militia. It is stating that the citizens affiliated with the militia may all bear arms, so that a soldier is not without a weapon.

However, another view on the militia itself is that all citizens of the state are members of the militia, and so everyone may bear arms in order to protect the state if necessary.

Tests are certainly becoming easier, but it's not because our education is getting better. In fact, it's a combination of education getting worse and the tests getting easier, all at once. Exams are becoming easier to compensate for lack of :

1) Time. Time was regulated on exams in the past. It is unlimited for most exams today.

2)Space. All this talk about going green is shortening the test booklets.

3)Intelligence. Higher scores come from easier tests.

And to prove it all, I've included a link to an 8th grade exam in 1895, which I believe displays how test difficulty has declined.

Math is the basis for everything in this world. The Earth is a sphere, a football is pulled toward the ground at an acceleration rate of 9.8 meters per second squared. Whatever you look at, there's math involved. The same goes for any good job: an accountant has to be able to do all sorts of math, from arithmetic to calculus. Someone checking people in at a hotel has to be ready to defend against people trying to lower the price. Anywhere you go, you'll need to know math, so ofcourse we need it in our high schools.

Nothing "appeared"- its very simple. A very long time ago, after the creation of the oceans, simple chemical reactions occurred that became more and more complex, and eventually created RNA, which developed into 2 cells. those cells began to multiply, and random mutations occurred, changing them ever so slightly. (Also, cyanobacteria developed, which developed that thin air you were talking about). Millions and millions of years of this evolutionary process, and now we have websites where we can debate about how we started.

Obesity is certainly a problem in the US. However, we also have physical education classes in the US, and obesity rates are just climbing. If our PE classes are helping obesity at all, it's not by much. It would certainly be a better use of resources if we turned those space-hogging gyms into classrooms, and used all the money going toward PE equipment into payment for skilled teachers. Everyone agrees that math and science are the future of our country and our world- so we need to decide what really should be part of a school day. Not running around a track and getting nowhere at all- maybe learning how to find the distance around that track, or learning how the human body burns calories. Overall, academic education definitely needs to take the place of wasteful PE classes, and get our country ready for the engineering and scientific problems that are yet to come.