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The "God-Particle" and God

EMTMatt Wrote: Jul 10, 2012 11:29 AM

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0075.pdf Based on Census data less than 1.7 million self-identify as Atheist. Which would be around .33% of the population. Even if you add up all the people who define themselves as having no religion, different than Atheist, including those who didn't answer, you get around 13% not 16%. And of course there is this. http://www.adherents.com/misc/adh_prison.html Seems that by that same math of all who express no religion being one group Atheists represent almost 20% of the Federal Prison Population. That would mean that Atheists are over represented by population wheras Christians are underrepresented. Darn facts. Don't you hate how they get in the way of your talking points?

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The "God-Particle" and God

They found the "God-Particle."

That was the headline in many of America's news media. It turns out that the name actually derives from substituting "God-particle" for "goddamn particle," the original name some scientists had given the elusive particle. But the media adopted the former nomenclature.

Why?

Because otherwise, the bulk of humanity would not pay attention. Physicists went nuts. And no one can blame them. For decades, they have searched for the particle that may explain why there is any mass in the universe. And ten billion dollars were spent on the machine that probably proved its existence.

It is therefore not meant in...

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