Yea...well I just got my acceptance letter from Colgate University this morning. I was psyched but my dad wasn't. 50 grand a year. Oh boy. We'll be fine though; we didn't need any financial aid.

Schnauzerz

I don't know how Canada functions, but in America there are state funded public universities. Since they are underfunded and mismanaged, they need to charge a substantial amount of money in order to function. Since there are fairly expensive state schools, private schools can reasonably charge much more and still expect to get some students. Also, the private schools at least (I don't know about public) have to deal with many many taxes, raising the costs more.

So you get stuck with some crappy options. A fairly cheap but low quality Community College, a sometimes exceptional but typically mediocre state school, or a rediculously expensive private university. I'm not sure hor the recession is going to effect all of this, though.

I was hoping for "Tower of Terror". I love that ride.

Society likes to switch to diffrent "hot topics" (not the store, you emo), so long term concerns like the enviroment can only get so much spotlight at once. Besides, the recession is much more important to most americans, including myself, because it brings up a "how am I going to get the money for the end of the month" issue.

god doesn't make bad things happen to good people, we do...redbaron3

There is no God so bad things just happen to everyone for no reason =/

If more people listen to God's call to feed the hungry and help the sick then there would be so much less suffering and starving in the world. Its like this story I've heard:

A man goes to the barber. While getting his hair cut the barber says "I don't believe in God." The man asks why. The barber explains that he had seen people raped and murdered on the news last nigh, and he had seen a special about so many people dying from aids in Africa. The barber didn't understand how an all powerful, all loving God would let that happen. The man thinks about this for a while. As the man is leaving he turns to the barber and says, "you know, I don't believe in barbers." The barber asks why. The man points to a homeless person on the street and says "No one cuts that man's hair."

Acemaster27

Also, if no one in the world had cut hair I wouldn't believe in barbers. As soon as you show me someone with cut hair I'll become a barber

Also, I took this from another website, but it is interesting none the less.

Great Scientists Working From a Biblical Worldview:

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) - Hydraulics, Anatomy
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) - Celestial Mechanics, Astronomy
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) - Hydrostatics, Fluid Pressure
Robert Boyle (1627-1691) - Chemistry, Elements, Gas Volume & Pressure, Scientific Method
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) - Calculus, Laws of Gravity & Motion
John Woodward (1665-1728) - Paleontology
Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) - Systematic Biology ****fication
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) - Comparative Anatomy, Vertebrate Paleontology
Michael Faraday (1791-1867) - Electromagnetics, Field Theory
Charles Babbage (1792-1871) - Computer Science
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) - Ichthyology, Glacial Geology
James Joule (1818-1889) - Reversible Thermodynamics
Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) - Genetics
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) - Bacteriology, Germs cause Disease, Law of Biogenesis
Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) - Thermodynamics, Energetics
William Ramsay (1852-1916) - Isotopic Chemistry

http://www.geocities.com/worldview_3/scientmethod.html

mysterylobster

I became a very serious atheist after seeing a lot of things I wasn't exposed to previously. I learned a lot about science and the world and didn't think God could be a part of that. I am very well educated in the processes of the world, and for a time, I decided that God couldn't fit in there.

Then I realized he could fit in there, and decided to give it a chance. I examined religion again, and found truth there.

It was a persona decision, and I really can't explain it to you. It was a very long, and in some ways, upsetting story that I really can't word right.

I guess you could say I found something. Do I believe everyone needs that something? Most certainly not, and I don't consider myself "holier than thou". I don't consider myself "better", and in all honesty, I still do a lot of unsavory things.

-TheSecondSign-

Mhm, How "religious" would you say exactly. I'm assuming you're not a christian literalist, nor a Pantheist. I can understand Pantheism/Deism as an easy jump from Atheism. If you are a literalist (creationist etc), no offense, but I can't wrap my mind around that jump.

I requested this about a month ago and everyone basically shot down my idea stating that "if I don't like religion threads, ignore them" or "it would revoke freedom of speech." Meh. I still think we should have a religion forum.stevenk4k5